In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Characterized by slit eyes, which appear as convex ...

Thai Amavasai 2025: Thai Amavasai 2025 will be observed on 29th January 2025, according to the Tamil calendar. This sacred new moon day, marking the first Amavasya during the Uttarayana period, holds ...

Massive historical transformations, by dint of their scale and waves of consequences that ripple across time and space, are difficult to grasp without an effective point of entry. Consider, for ...

Pitru Amavasya, a pivotal date in the Pitru Paksha calendar, will be observed on September 21st this year, marking the conclusion of this sacred period. This day holds immense importance in religious ...

Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel shortages, gang violence and rising ...

Dang Phuoc Doa and a few elderly men kneel in front of an ancestor altar, complete with ancestral tablets, flowers, and candles, performing elaborate rituals to invite their ancestors to party with ...

Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the bronzes range from a wine vessel depicting a double owl to a celestial horse sculpture, all illustrating how early humans honored ancestors and deities.

During the past 100 years the traditional ritual art related to ancestor cults, spirit beliefs and headhunting has withered in the sparsely populated Raja Ampat archipelago. Setting out to establish ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in Italy. The bones were worn and broken, but there was no evidence of violence, leading the researchers to suspect the ...

Well, the Ancestor’s Project is here to further educate the masses on the benefits of Sacred Earth Medicine and alternative healing techniques. The Ancestor Project (TAP) is an educational, healing ...