Category Archives: TRADITIONS

Celebrate the Dead

22.2.14

Cemeteries and graves all over Mexico are decorated and honoured on The Day of the Dead, a combination of the Christian All Souls' Day with older indigenous Mexican holiday. Here is the cemetery of the lovely mountain town, San Christobal. Not only is it beautifully decorated with flowers, but the architecture of the tombs and graves are a beautiful mix of colors, tiles and crosses. It reminds me very much of the Memphis furniture we had in the house while I was growing up.
Photographed November 2010, in San Christobal, Mexico.

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Hergiswald

8.8.13

We visited this church built in 1654, on a little road trip to Kanton Luzern. The 324 naive baroque ceiling paintings are emblems of motives and sayings of the time. The whole thing reminds us of Tarot, while being very different.The countryside folk style creates a much more powerful feeling and atmosphere than the richer churches of the day.
Photographed August 2013, in Hergiswald, Switzerland.

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7.7.13

All the other graves are covered in flowers for the day of the dead celebrations. This cement grave keeps its beauty in its simplicity.
Photographed November 2009, in St.Cristobal, Mexico.

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22.3.13

Aiyanar Temple in the southern indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Photographed march 2012, in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Vat Xieng Thong

14.2.13

Built in 1560, Vat Xieng Thong is a lovely Buddhist temple at the far tip of Luang Prabang. The various buildings are covered in carvings and mosaics depicting scenes from Buddha's life, dharmachakras, the tree of life and Lao legends.
Photographed February 2013, in Luang Prabang, Laos.

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Phallus Shrine

10.2.13

Goddess Tuptim Shrine tucked away on the grounds of the Swisshotel
in central Bangkok.
Photographed February 2013, in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Callanish

29.1.13

In the Outer Hebrides, the remote islands of northern Scotland, is Callanish. A neolithic temple and stargazing clock. Walk around them, touch them, feel the landscape.
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Photographed October 2004, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

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Catacombs of the Cappuccini

18.1.13

The catacombs are strange, surreal and creepy. Various corridors were only for virgins, or children, or royalty. 8000 skeletons and a creaking door.
Photographed October 2012, in Palermo, Italy.

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18.1.13

On the last day of the year in Appenzell ausserrhoden, groups of male farmers get dressed up and go from farm house to farm house, singing and ringing their bells.
Photographed December 2011, in Appenzell, Switzerland.

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