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| Description: | Sito ufficiale di Mamuthones e Issohadores di Mamoiada (NU-Sardegna, Italia)dell'associazione Peppino B?ccoi-Costantino Atzeni. | | hits: | 616 | | Added on: | 15-Oct-2005 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | The Tshechu is a festival honouring Guru Padmasambhava, "one who was born from a lotus flower." This Indian saint contributed enormously to the diffusion of Tantric Buddhism in the Himalayan regions of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan etc. around 800 AD. He is the founder of the Nyingmapa, the "old school" of Lamaism which still has numerous followers. The biography of Guru is highlighted by 12 episodes of the model of the Buddha Shakyamuni?s life. Each episode is commemorated around the year on the 10th day of the month by "the Tschechu". The dates and the duration of the festivals vary from one district to another but they always take place on or around the 10th day of the month according to the Bhutanese calendar. During Tshechus, the dances are performed by monks as well as by laymen. The Tshechu is a religious festival and by attending it, it is believed one gains merits. It is also a yearly social gathering where the people, dressed in all their finery, come together to rejoice. | | hits: | 547 | | Added on: | 29-Sep-2005 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Queensland is unique amongst all of the states of Australia in being the traditional home of two different indigenous communities. The Torres Strait Islander people, who originate from the islands located between Australia and Papua New Guinea, have separate cultural traditions to the Aboriginal people of the mainland. | | hits: | 374 | | Added on: | 25-Jul-2003 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Photos of Shaman masks from various tribes | | hits: | 338 | | Added on: | 28-Apr-2003 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | The Dan of Liberia are famous for a variety of ritual masks. One of the most prominent is the type on display that is used during young mens' rite of passage ceremonies. Perfectly carved with naturalistic features this hard wood facial cover features two rows of old cowry shells attached to a fabric bundled headdress. Stripes of tin that mimic scarification and highlight the eyes are added for richness. One large bell known as a "summoners bell" is suspended from the chin. The bell is used to call upon spirits during the ritual. This is a beautiful well crafted piece. It was created in the mid 20th century.
| | hits: | 177 | | Added on: | 16-Apr-2003 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | by M. Macha NightMare
Covenant of the Goddess is a bunch of Witches. We presumably share values and beliefs. And we try to work by consensus.
However, we have only one annual meeting, called Grand Council, to conduct all business for the upcoming year. This takes place over a mere three days, so there's pressure to get business taken care of. In our concern for completing the "business" of CoG, we sometimes overlook or forget the shared values that have brought us together in the first place.
In Starhawk's novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, a sense of the sacred, of the presence of the whole of nature, is injected into business meetings by having mask-wearers, each aspecting a different element or animal, taking part in the meeting.
The novel inspired me to put the idea into practice. With masks made by sculptor Eleanor Myers, I first employed this method at CoG's Grand Council in 1996. I hoped to bring back to meetings a visible and tangible reminder, to resacralize our meetings with the constant physical presence of the Elements of Life. I hoped it would remind us of the sacredness and balance we need if our work is to have meaning.
| | hits: | 287 | | Added on: | 10-Feb-2003 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Iroquois medicine mask, 1800's, typical of those made to resemble and call forth healing spirits. Carved from wood and used in group dances to rid dwellings and individuals of illness. While the early white man looked upon such rituals as primitive and ignorant, the Iroquois were nonetheless understood to be advanced to the point that the principles of their confederation were adopted to become the U.S. Constitution. | | hits: | 305 | | Added on: | 17-Nov-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | The death of a village elder is cause for a celebration ritual. As the the griot whips the crowd into a frenzy, I lose myself in the magical energy of the dance of the spirits. | | hits: | 164 | | Added on: | 17-Nov-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | From the Asmat tribe of Irian Jaya (West New Guinea),Indonesia.This body mask is worn during the "Jipae" Feast, a celebration of the passage of the dead from the world of people to the world of the spirits. They also call it "Baju Setan" ( Ghost Armor). During a "Jipae" ceremony, the close relative of the deceased will wear it to symbolize the spirit or ghost of the dead and parades through the village while the children and women throw rocks presenting the act of the chasing and sending the ghost to the spirit world. The body mask is made from the bark of "Fum" wood, dried then slowly hand woven into a rope. Only "Fum" rope may be used for making the rope mask. The mask is used only one time for the "Jipae" Feast, during the ceremony. Decorated with sago fibers, cassowarry nose ornament and feathers on top.
The colors of the mask are, white from crushed shells, and brown from red ocher river mud | | hits: | 278 | | Added on: | 02-Nov-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Today the priests still dance at forty different locations throughout the year. Twenty-one times they dance in the different old quarters of Bhaktapur itself, the rest of the time they tour the various villages in the North-Eastern rim of the Katmandu Valley. Afterwards they return to Bhaktapur where the goddesses ceremonially die and the masks are burnt before the annual rains. In the fall they are resurrected and the masks built anew for another cycle | | hits: | 206 | | Added on: | 10-Aug-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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