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  • Sri Lanka. Udappuwa. On the dawn of the day of the fire walking, the chief priest brings out from the Hindu Temple a pot of 'Sacred Fire' that will kindle the wood pyre.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_fire at dawn_587686...jpg
  • Laki Senanayake. <br />
Bush Fire.<br />
Water Colour on paper.<br />
18" x 12"<br />
<br />
No: 23<br />
GRN 263258 14/6/19
    Laki_Bush Fire_June 2019IMG_7165.jpg
  • The pit for the fire walking is prepared in front of the Sri Thiropathai Amman Temple.<br />
The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Fire Walking_DSC738...jpg
  • SRI LANKA...Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    SL. Udappu. Preparing the fire pit 5...jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Udappuwa. On the dawn of the day of the fire walking, the chief priest, Manivasa Gurukal brings out from the Hindu Temple a pot of 'Sacred Fire' that will kindle the wood pyre.
    Sri Lanka. Udappuwa Fire walking fes...jpg
  • The pit for the fire walking is prepared in front of the Sri Thiropathai Amman Temple.<br />
The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Fire Walking_DSC747...jpg
  • The pit for the fire walking is prepared in front of the Sri Thiropathai Amman Temple.<br />
The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7447.jpg
  • The pit for the fire walking is prepared in front of the Sri Thiropathai Amman Temple.<br />
The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7409.jpg
  • SRI LANKA..Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    8662803.jpg
  • SRI LANKA..Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Festival_8662806.jpg
  • SRI LANKA..Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    8662804.jpg
  • SRI LANKA..Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    8662805.jpg
  • SRI LANKA...Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    Udappuwa temple.jpg
  • The pit for the fire walking is prepared in front of the Sri Thiropathai Amman Temple.<br />
The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7434.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Udappuwa festival...The fire has been lit at dawn with flames brought out from the inner santum of the temple. The Tamarind wood will burn all day till it is redued to a bed of red hot embers. 20th July 2005
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  • Udappu fire walking festival. The Hindu Temple as a backdrop. the tamamrind tree logs abalze.
    SL. Udappu. Preparing the fire pit D...jpg
  • Festival at Udappu village.<br />
2009
    SL. Udappu Fire Walking_DSC4678.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    Sri Lanka. Udappuwa Fire Walking.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    Sri Lanka_Fire Walking Udappuwa.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. On the dawn of the day of the fire walking, the Chief Priest, carries the sacred flame which will light the wood for the fire walking that night. Festival at Udappu village.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu Festval_DSC_0025.jpg
  • Preparing the fire.
    _DSC4903.jpg
  • The Four Guardians arrive at the front of the main Vishnu Kovil. The fire walking will take place here the next day. Each is given charge of a corner. They dance to Sinhalese drummers. Each finally falls at his respective corner, his jasmine bangle whipped off, and then carried off into the temple.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Festival_5901693.jpg
  • SRI LANKA. On the dawn of the day of the fire walking, the Chief Priest, carries the sacred flame which will light the wood for the fire walking that night. Festival at Udappu village.
    Sri Lanka_Udappuwa_DSC_0027_b&w.jpg
  • The pit for the fire walking is prepared in front of the Sri Thiropathai Amman Temple.<br />
The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7489.jpg
  • Preparing the fire.
    _DSC4976.jpg
  • Preparing the fire.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Festival__DSC4918.jpg
  • Sacrificial fire. 2004
    8659099.jpg
  • Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
    5978428.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Udappuwa festival...Once the first flames have risen, the men of the village pile on the heavy trunks of Tamarind wood to make a huge bonfire.
    5877632.jpg
  • Fire lily(Gloriosa superba)
    DSC56_0054.jpg
  • Festival at Udappu village.
    SL. Udappu. Preparing the fire pit_D...jpg
  • The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Fire Walking_DSC747...jpg
  • Festival at Udappu village.
    SL. Udappu. Preparing the fire pit_D...jpg
  • The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_b&w_DSC7434.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8337.jpg
  • The August Udappu festival. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_b&w_DSC7447.jpg
  • Udappuwa Festival. The firewalking on the last night of the annual festival..July 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC7767.jpg
  • Udappuwa Festival. The firewalking on the last night of the annual festival..July 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC7767.jpg
  • Festival at Udappu village.
    _DSC5239.jpg
  • Festival at Udappu village.
    _DSC4684.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Lighting on temporary Gopuram. Mamangeshwarar Temple festival. Batticaloa
    Sri Lanka_Hindu_festival_Batticaloa ...jpg
  • Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
    Sri Lanka_Hindu_Kovil_Batticaloa.jpg
  • Myanmar. Woman and hearth of the first floor of a farm house. <br />
Traditionaly built bamboo farm house - Shan State.
    Myanamar_Woman at hearth_farm House_...jpg
  • Myanmar. Traditionaly built bamboo farm house - Shan State.
    Myanmar_Traditional Bamboo structure...jpg
  • Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
    Sri Lanka_Batticaloa_DS_080731_3076.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    Sri Lanka_Ramanathan Kovil festival_...jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8278924.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8278922.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8278921.jpg
  • Women cooking hoppers and pittu along the street leading to the Kovil. Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
    DS_080731_2909.jpg
  • Pongal festival celebrations in the Hill Country.
    SL_Pongal_festival__DSC2526.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8282784.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8278928.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    Ramanathan Kovil Kochchikade.jpg
  • Sri Lanka.<br />
Oil lamps made from terracotta at a Bhudist temple near Colombo. Kelaniya temple.
    Sri Lanka. Kelaniya Temple oil lamps.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. <br />
Small clay lamps filled with coconut oil at a Budhist temple.
    Sri Lanka. Clay lamps at a temple.jpg
  • Maldives. <br />
A perfect traditional Kitchen on Utheem. 2006.
    Maldives. Utheem. Kitchen_b&w_AP.jpg
  • Caravan of bullock carts, north of Kurunegala.<br />
stop for the evening
    Sri Lanka. Bullock cart caravan_b&w.jpg
  • The firewalking on the last night of the annual festival.<br />
Sri Thiropathai Amman Temple, Udappu. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7767.jpg
  • The firewalking on the last night of the annual festival.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7733.jpg
  • The firewalking on the last night of the annual festival.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7743.jpg
  • The firewalking on the last night of the annual festival.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7716.jpg
  • Lamps in hands... small devale near Ratnapura.
    Sri Lanka_Oil Lamps_DSC_0058.jpg
  • Women cooking hoppers and pittu along the street leading to the Kovil. Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
    DS_080731_2913.jpg
  • Pongal festival celebrations in the Hill Country.
    SL_pongal_DSC2619.jpg
  • Pongal festival celebrations in the Hill Country. 2010
    SL_Pongal_festival__2010.jpg
  • Pongal festival celebrations in the Hill Country.
    SL_Pongal_festival__DSC2634.jpg
  • Pongal festival celebrations in the Hill Country.
    SL_Pongal_festival__DSC2611.jpg
  • Pongal festival celebrations in the Hill Country.
    SL_Pongal_festival__DSC2527.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8291.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8273.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8260.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8334.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Women add firewood to the hearth which will boil a pot of turmeric in water. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8308.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8347.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8342.jpg
  • Hindu festival on the streets of Bambalapitiya in Colombo.
    _DSC2146.jpg
  • Hindu festival on the streets of Bambalapitiya in Colombo.
    _DSC2143.jpg
  • The Gods are taken around the temple precinct, carried on their respective vehicles. The Brahmin priests secure the God on the back of the horse.
    8293417.jpg
  • The Gods are taken around the temple precinct, carried on their respective vehicles. Here, The Horse is blessed after the God has been placed on its back.
    8293418.jpg
  • The Gods are taken around the temple precinct, carried on their respective vehicles. The Brahmin priests secure the God on the back of the horse.
    8293338.jpg
  • The Gods are taken around the temple precinct, carried on their respective vehicles.
    8293337.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8282779.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8281325.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8282781.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8282776.jpg
  • The Gods are taken around the temple precinct, carried on their respective vehicles. The Brahmin priests secure the God on the back of the horse.
    8281319.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8282783.jpg
  • The Gods are taken around the temple precinct, carried on their respective vehicles. The Brahmin priests burn camphor lamps before the procession begins.
    8281318.jpg
  • Festival at the Ramanathan Kovil in Kochchikade, Colombo. The Vel cart is taken round the temple, led by a group of women who carry clay pots. The pots carry burning camphor and are held with kohomba (margosa)[Azadirachta indica] leaves.
    8281324.jpg
  • Prathin Suphaphon runs the charcoal kilns that burn mangrove wood. This has been his job for over twenty years.
    Thailand_Charcoal_Kiln_11845832.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Mamangeshwarar festival. Sweet stalls at the open air market set up for the festival.
    Sri Lanka_Festival_Food_stall_Battic...jpg
  • The firewalking on the last night of the annual festival.<br />
Sri Thiropathai Amman Temple, Udappu. 2012
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_Jul/12_DSC7783.jpg
  • Young by at dusk by a brazier with coconut shells. At dusk, many of the houses will burn incencse in and around their homes.
    Sri Lanka_DS_Colombo_DSC4738.jpg
  • Mauritius. Clay oil lamp.
    Mauritius_Hindu_temple_DSC1317.jpg
  • Women cooking hoppers and pittu along the street leading to the Kovil. Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
    DS_080731_2912.jpg
  • Pongal festival celebrations in the Hill Country.
    SL_Pongal_festival__DSC2624.jpg
  • Pongal festival celebrations in the Hill Country.
    SL_Pongal_festival__DSC2622.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8306.jpg
  • Sri Lanka. Festival at Kali Kovil in Udappu.
    Sri Lanka_Udappu_DSC8287.jpg
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