Rituals Collection

Map of the Coronation ritual within Westminster Abbey
A panoramic view inside Westminster Abbey to show the position, movements and sequence of ceremonies (indicated by numbers) of the Coronation ceremony of King George VI. Date: 1937

Sri Lanka - Geta Beraya and Udekkiya players
Traditional Sri Lankna drums and drummers. The standing player is holding a hill country drum called the Geta Beraya (a drum with a knot)

Bust of goddess Tanit. Carthaginian art. Sculpture. SPAIN. BALEARES. IBIZA. Ibiza. Museum of Archaeology of Ibiza and Formentera

The Satanic Bible
Popular edition of self- anointed High Priest Anton Laveys Satanic Bible, a dubious mish-mash of occult rituals, pseudo-magic and popular diabolism

Wise woman at Ilchester, Somerset
At Ilchester, Somerset, a local wise woman uses weird rituals to treat cattle for foot and mouth disease

John Of God, Saint (1495-1550). Portuguese religious man, founder of the ador de la Order of Charity or of Hospitallers (Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God)

MUHAMMAD (570-632). Prophet and founder of Islam. Muhammad in ecstasy. Islamic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Mass of St. Martin. 15th c. Castilian school. Oil on wood. SPAIN. Bilbao. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

Loyola, Saint Ignacius of (1491-1556). Spanish religious man, founder of the Society of Jesus. Painting

Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500)
Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500 BC). Tarxien Temple Complex. Malta. Built in honour of a mother goddess of fertility

Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500)
Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500 BC). Tarxien Temple Complex. Malta. Built in honour of a mother goddess of fertility

Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500)
Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500 BC). Tarxien Temple Complex. Malta. Built in honour of a mother goddess of fertility. Architectural fragment decorated with reliefs depicting animals

Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500)
Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500 BC). Tarxien Temple Complex. Malta. Built in honour of a mother goddess of fertility

Jose Tapiro y Baro (1836-1913). Spanish painter. Parache, the dancer. Watercolour, 1895-1900. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Russia. Fires on the night-eve of the Feasts of Saint John or Kupula Night. Engraving by Lemaitre, Danvin and Cholet. History of Russia by Jean Marie Chopin (1796-1870)

Hauling home, wedding party in Ireland 1870
Hauling Home, generally refers to the old ceremony of escorting the bride and groom to the couples home after a wedding.. Date: 1870

Bali Bird Dance
This illustration portrays a Balinese woman wearing a costume and holding two fans symmetrically at shoulder height, performing the cendrawasih dance

Burmese Tug of War
Depiction of a game of tug of war in Burma (Myanmar)

SPAIN. Toledo. Spainish Civil War(1936-1939). Toledo. Wooden Christ from the Convent of the Concepcion mutilated with an ax

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Military mass in the nationalist area (1936)

Making a vessel of smoke for a dead Empress: burning the boat designed to carry the spirit of the late Empress Dowager Cixi of China across the river separating it from the heavenly Nirvana

Built to be burnt: a u7500 boat for a Chinese funeral. Sending a boat up in smoke for a
Built to be burnt: a 7500 boat for a Chinese funeral. Sending a boat up in smoke for an Empresss spiritual use

Scenes from Guinea, Africa, 1820
The palace of the King of Dahomey at Abomey 37, an African man hiding a fetish 38, and people of Whydah worshipping a huge snake 39. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Ancient Germanic deities. Statue of the sun god Sunna 1, moon god Mani 2, witches, magas mulieres or Haliurunna 3, goddess of fertility Ziwa or Siva 4. Divinita di Germani

A Druid in Ancient Britain sacrificing an Ox
A Druid from Ancient Britain sacrificing an Ox to please the Gods whilst three worshippers watch. Date: circa 400BC

Bathing in the Ganges by Fortunino Matania
With our special artist in India: a wonderful sight in the metropolis of Hinduism. Thousands of pilgrims, fakirs and other worshippers bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges, Benares, India

Maya Codices. The Madrid Codex (Codex Tro-Cortesianus). Pos
The Madrid Codex (Codex Tro-Cortesianus). Postclassic Period. There are 112 pages, which got split up into two separate sections, known as the Troano Codex and the Cortesianus Codex

A burial in Ancient Egypt by Matania
A Burial in Ancient Egypt - A Reconstruction of the Scene at the Entombment of a High Official

Leda and Swan, fragment of sculpture from Anhas, Morocco. 3rd century. Coptic art. Relief. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Coptic Museum

Chi Rho. Paleo-christian art. Relief on rock. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

MELANCHTON, Philipp Schwarzerd, called (1497-1560). Theologian and Luthers collaborator. DURER, Albrecht (1471-1528). Renaissance art. Engraving. FRANCE. PICARDY. OISE. Chantilly

Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337). Crucifix. 1317. Renaissance art. Trecento. ITALY. VENETO. Padua. Municipal Museum of Padua. Proc: ITALY. VENETO. Padua. Scrovegni Chapel

Lorsch Gospels (Codex Aureus Laurensius). 778 - 820. Gospels written by the court scriptorium of Charlemagne and compiled in 830 in the Lorsch Abbey. Image of Christ in Majesty (Maiestas Domini)

Maya Civilization. Ball game
Maya Civilization. Mesoamerican ballgame. Litography

Bronze Age. Four interlaced plaits. From Farup at Vindum, central Jutland. C. 350 BC. National Museum of Denmark

Lurs. The lur horns are Nordic wind instruments. Used for Br
Prehistory. Art. Metal Age. Lurs. The lur horns are the distinctively Nordic wind instruments. Used to create an atmospheric background of sound for Bronze Age rituals

NOTKER BALBULUS (840-912). Benedictine monk of the Abbey of St. Gall. Poet and composer of Gregorian chant. Codex Sangallensis 376. Missal manuscript ca

Mercury. 3rd century. Roman art. Mosaic. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Tarragona. National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona

Hevajra. 18th c. Buddhist Tantric deity. Golden bronze. Tibetan art. Sculpture. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Guimet Museum. Proc: CHINA. TIBET

A priest leading a bull to sacrifice, from the Palace of Zimri-Lim, Mari. Babylonian art. Neo-Babylonian Art. Painting. SYRIA. ALEPPO. Aleppo. Archaeological Museum

Funerary papyrus of Djedkhonsouefankh depicting Geb and Nut, Third Intermediate Period (papyrus), Egyptian 21st Dynasty (c.1069-945 BC). Egyptian art. Late Period. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum

Sculpture depicting the goddess of fertility, artifact originating from Tepetzintla (Mexico). Pre-Colombian Civilization. Maya art. Sculpture. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City

ANTOLINEZ, Jose (1635-1675). The Immaculate. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. BASQUE COUNTRY. VIZCAYA. Bilbao. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

ZURBARAN, Francisco de (1598-1664). Holy Face. 1631. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. EUROPE. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Sevilla. Parroquia de San Pedro

Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, found at Colle de las Escalerilla. Aztec art. Sculpture. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. National Museum of Anthropology

Bottle with female form and gold nose ring. Childbirth scene. Viru Culture of the Chicama and Viru, Peru, 3rd c. A.D. Pre-Columbian art. Ceramics. PERU. Lima. Peruvian Gold Museum

Figure shaped as a sarcophagus lid founded in Ard-el-Morali necropolis. Carthaginian art. Ceramics. TUNISIA. Tunis. Bardo Museum. Proc: TUNISIA. TUNIS. Carthage

CHARLES II of Spain (1661-1700). King of Spain (1665-1701). Haunting of Charles II. Engraving

Painted wood stele depicting Amon musician playing harp before god Ra-Harakhty, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty XXI. Egyptian art. Painting. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum

Mask. Bembe Art (Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania). African art. Sculpture on wood. BELGIUM. FLANDERS. BRABANT. Tervuren

Reliquary Guardian Figure (ethnicity Kota, Fang). They protect the relics of the ancestors and are helpful to communicate with their gods and to curse their wives in case of infidelity. African art

Borobudur Temple. 9th c. INDONESIA. Borobudur. Reliefs of the temple wall. Frieze depicting Buddhist scenes. Hindu art. Relief on rock

Masonic Seal. French Rite. Budapest, 19th century. Metals. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 du Grand Orient de France et de la Franc-Ma篮 nerie Europ饮 ne

Maya palace of Palenque. Engraving 19th c
Mayan Civilization. Palenque Palace, built in the Late Classic period (600-900 AD). Reconstruction by R. Cant󠩮 M鸩 co a trav鳠 de los siglos, 1884. Litography

Thaipusam, Hindu Festival - Singapore - Vel Kavadi
Thaipusam, Hindu Festival, marked by Piercings and Painful Rituals in Singapore

SRI LANKA. Mihintale. Golden Temple. Sitting Buddha

A tiger wedding in Coorg, India
A tiger wedding in Coorg, Southern India, in which the man who has shot a tiger is wedded to the soul of the dead tiger

Interior of a Mosque, Algeria. Four men gather around an ablution fountain to prepare themselves for prayer. Three of the men wash their feet, whilst the other drinks the water. circa 1910s

Metal Age. Golden bowls. 1000-800 BC. From Borgbjerg Banke
Art. Prehistory. Metal Age. Golden bowls. 1000-800 BC. Decorated with sun symbols, and several have a handle with a horses head. Used as drinking cups at rituals feasts

Metal Age. Northern Europe. The round shields. Period 1100-7
Prehistoric. Art. Metal Age. Northern Europe. The round shields were used in the rituals. They were probably imported from central Europe and are from the period 1100-700 BC

Bronze Age. Hair in the form of braided locks was also sacrifice in the bogs. Sometimes several plaits were tied together. These deposits can be seen as both small and large sacrifices

Prehistoric. Art. Metal Age. Male figure of oak, from Broddenbjerg Bog, central Jutland

Puye Indian cliff dwellings near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Puye Indian cliff dwellings, ruins of an abandoned pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Showing two people standing inside a reconstructed kiva, a room used for religious rituals. Date: 1930s

Chinese Labour Corps praying on New Years Day WW1
Joss pidgin otherwise known as Divine worship in a camp of the Chinese battalion of the Labour Corps in France on New Years Day, 1918. Date: 1918

FRANCIS OF ASSISI, Saint (1182-1226). Italian mystic, founder of the Franciscan order. Anonymous author (17th c.). Colonial baroque. Oil on canvas. PERU. Arequipa. Convent of Santa Catalina

CANO, Alonso (1601-1667). Stigmatization of St. Francis. 1657 - 1659. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Church of San Francisco el Grande

MARIUS PICTOR (1852-1924). Red sunset, fine morning. 1882-1902. Symbolism. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 d Orsay (Orsay Museum)

INNOCENT III (1160-1216). Pope (1198-1216). Engraving

SARTO, Andrea del (1486-1531). The Annunciation. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Oil on canvas. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Pitti Palace

ASIA. CHINA. HONAN. Anyang (Henan). Gu ritual vessel used to drink wine or to offer ritual libations. Bronze polychrome. Chinese art. Shang period. Jewelry. SINGAPORE. Lee Kong Chian Art Museum

ITALY. Cividale del Friuli. Mary Magdalene and Saint Sofia with the theological virtues. Romanesque art. Fresco

ZURBARAN, Francisco de (1598-1664). SPAIN. Arcos de la Frontera. Basilica of Saint Mary. The Holy Face. Painting

ABARCA Y BLANQUE, Joaqu�(1778-1844). Spanish prelate
ABARCA Y BLANQUE, Joaqu� (1778-1844). Spanish prelate. Litography. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Loyola, Saint Ignacius of (1491-1556). Spanish religious man, founder of the Society of Jesus. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

The Final Judgment. 1560. Detail. Paintings in the narthex of the katholikon (church). Late Byzantine art. Fresco. GREECE. THESSALY. TRIKALA. Kalambaka. Roussanou Monastery

Scoreboards in volcanic tuff (diameter 73cm) intended for ball games. Maya art. Sculpture. HONDURAS. COPAN. Copᮮ Archaeological Museum. Proc: HONDURAS. COPAN. Copᮮ

TOME, Narciso (1690-1752). Transparent. 1729 - 1731. SPAIN. Toledo. Cathedral. Rococo. Relief on marble

Missal with scene of the Crucifixion. School of Avignon (1409). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Bosco, Saint John (1815-1888). Italian priest and educator. Glazed tiles panel with representation of the childhood of the saint

GREGORY XVI (1765-1846). Pope (1831-1846). Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Vincent De Paul, Saint (1581-1660). French priest founder of the Congregation of the Mission. Engraving

Meditation of the Solitaires of Port-Royal. French School, (17th century). Engraving

Painted page from Torah, 18th century. Jewish Traditions and Rituals. Textiles. ISRAEL. JERUSALEM. Jerusalem. Israel Museum

ITALY. Pompeii. Temple of Apollo. Roman art. Early Empire

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