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  • Maria Antahuilia Nahuelpi lives in a small hut in the countryside of what is known as the resisitance zone of Mapuche territory. She is a well known Machi,  a powerful healer,  Shaman but also the most respected  religious figure in Mapuche culture. Often a Machi is chosen whilst being a child depending on her or his character, often described by outsiders as the Creator God. Most often Machis are women, Araucania, Chile. February 16, 2018.
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  • A shaman puts a spell on the Cuadrilla drill site. Anti-fracking activists join hands to surround the Cuadrilla fracking site. Thousands turned out for a march of solidarity against fracking in Balcombe. The village Balcombe in Sussex is the  centre of fracking by the company Cuadrilla. The march saw anti-fracking movements from the Lancashire and the North, Wales and other communities around the UK under threat of gas and oil exploration by fracking.
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Oruro in Bolivia is a capital for mining
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  • An African Concoction Man’s storage area in Northern Ghana. Various ritualistic instruments, religious items and objects are hidden here for his use in rituals. The Concoction Men make various predictions; such as determining spirit children and whether their clients will be successful in marriage and business.
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  • Lorenzo Ayallapan Cayuleo, 81 also known as El hombre Pájaro, Birdman. Lorenzo claims to speak and understand 60 different bird languages. In the Mapuche world he is aknowledged as a sage and guardian of his peoples ancestral  culture. Seen here at his favourite spots where four rivers meet the Pacific Ocean in the bay of Puerto Saavedra in Araucanía. He claims it to be a place of great energy which makes it easy to listen to  the four sounds of life:  the earth, the sea, the wind and the sound of the trees. He is a master imitator of all these diverse sounds, Puerto Saavedra, Chile. February 13, 2018.
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  • Lorenzo Ayallapan Cayuleo, 81 also known as El hombre Pájaro, Birdman. Lorenzo claims to speak and understand 60 different bird languages. In the Mapuche world he is aknowledged as a sage and guardian of his peoples ancestral  culture. Seen here at his favourite spots where four rivers meet the Pacific Ocean in the bay of Puerto Saavedra in Araucanía. He claims it to be a place of great energy which makes it easy to listen to  the four sounds of life:  the earth, the sea, the wind and the sound of the trees. He is a master imitator of all these diverse sounds, Puerto Saavedra, Chile. February 13, 2018.
    20180213_chile_mapuches_105.jpg
  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • A Ghanaian Concoction Man determines whether a child (usually with a disability) is a spirit child, through various Rituals. These predictions are made with the use of sacrificial goats, the fresh blood of chickens, observing the behaviour of the beheaded chicken and various ritualistic instruments and objects.
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  • A Ghanaian Concoction Man determines whether a child (usually with a disability) is a spirit child, through various Rituals. These predictions are made with the use of sacrificial goats, the fresh blood of chickens, observing the behaviour of the beheaded chicken and various ritualistic instruments and objects.
    08-ghana_1706.jpg
  • Lorenzo Ayallapan Cayuleo, 81 also known as El hombre Pájaro, Birdman. Lorenzo claims to speak and understand 60 different bird languages. In the Mapuche world he is aknowledged as a sage and guardian of his peoples ancestral  culture. Seen here at his favourite spots where four rivers meet the Pacific Ocean in the bay of Puerto Saavedra in Araucanía. He claims it to be a place of great energy which makes it easy to listen to  the four sounds of life:  the earth, the sea, the wind and the sound of the trees. He is a master imitator of all these diverse sounds, Puerto Saavedra, Chile. February 13, 2018.
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
    _MG_1900_1_1.jpg
  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
    _MG_1636_1_1.jpg
  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
    _MG_1524_1_1.jpg
  • A Ghanaian Concoction Man determines whether a child (usually with a disability) is a spirit child, through various Rituals. These predictions are made with the use of sacrificial goats, the fresh blood of chickens, observing the behaviour of the beheaded chicken and various ritualistic instruments and objects.
    08-ghana_1745.jpg
  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
    _MG_1835_1.jpg
  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • Boilivian miners from Oruro celebrating the start of Carnival with the ch'alla ceremony which involves blessing llamas which are seen as lucky in Bolivia, with beer, cica, tobacco and ribbons, then sacrificing the llamas to El Tio - the God of the underworld, who is seen to have an insatiable appetite for destruction so therefore needs to be appeased with an offering of blood for prosperity for the coming year
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  • A Ghanaian Concoction Man has beheaded a chicken to determine whether a child (usually with a disability) is a spirit child. These predictions are made through various rituals, which include; the use of sacrificial goats, the fresh blood of chickens, observing the behaviour of the beheaded chicken and various ritualistic instruments and objects.
    08-ghana_1734.jpg
  • A Ghanaian Concoction Man beheads a chicken to determine whether a child (usually with a disability) is a spirit child. These predictions are made through various rituals which, include; the use of sacrificial goats, the fresh blood of chickens, observing the behaviour of the beheaded chicken and various ritualistic instruments and objects.
    08-ghana_1717.jpg
  • PaO ethnic minority women at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
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  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
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  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6276cc_1_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6272cc_1_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6256cc_1_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6425cc_1_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
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  • Portrait of two PaO ethnic minority women and a young girl at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
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  • Portrait of PaO ethnic minority children at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar  at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6254cc_1_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6253cc_1_1.jpg
  • A shaman and fellow spirital followers in a field of Christmas trees put a spell on the Cuadrilla drill site. Anti-fracking activists join hands to surround the Cuadrilla fracking site. Thousands turned out for a march of solidarity against fracking in Balcombe. The village Balcombe in Sussex is the  centre of fracking by the company Cuadrilla. The march saw anti-fracking movements from the Lancashire and the North, Wales and other communities around the UK under threat of gas and oil exploration by fracking.
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  • A shaman and fellow spirital followers in a field of Christmas trees put a spell on the Cuadrilla drill site. Anti-fracking activists join hands to surround the Cuadrilla fracking site. Thousands turned out for a march of solidarity against fracking in Balcombe. The village Balcombe in Sussex is the  centre of fracking by the company Cuadrilla. The march saw anti-fracking movements from the Lancashire and the North, Wales and other communities around the UK under threat of gas and oil exploration by fracking.
    IMG_7757_1_1.jpg
  • The rocket festival audience at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF8356cc_1_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6420cc_1_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6281cc_1_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a PaO ethnic minority woman at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head
    DSCF6423cc_1_1.jpg
  • A shaman and fellow spirital followers in a field of Christmas trees put a spell on the Cuadrilla drill site. Anti-fracking activists join hands to surround the Cuadrilla fracking site. Thousands turned out for a march of solidarity against fracking in Balcombe. The village Balcombe in Sussex is the  centre of fracking by the company Cuadrilla. The march saw anti-fracking movements from the Lancashire and the North, Wales and other communities around the UK under threat of gas and oil exploration by fracking.
    IMG_7762_1_1.jpg
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