Asakusa Kannon or Senso-ji Temple. Detail of incense burning in joukoro incense burner outside temple. Visitors to the temple waft the smoke over themselves in the belief that it will keep them heal...

Portrait of a sikh man wearing orange and royal blue turban set with a khanda the symbol of Sikhdom and with grey beard and moustache.Asia Asian Bharat Gray Inde Indian Intiya Male Men Guy Old Seni...

Dogon rooftop dancers brandishing carved wooden staffs a symbol of a particular Dogon fraternity.

Spiral cones of incense hanging from roof of the Man Mo or warlord temple. The warlord god is Kwan Tai and is patron of both police and gangsters. A historical figure from the Three Kingdoms period...

Detail of painted fertility symbol . on front of Barasana maloca communal home.Tukano sedentary tribe Indian North Western Amazonia maloca American Colombian Columbia Hispanic Indegent Latin Americ...

Parsis encircling fire in a temple. Flames burn eternally in their fire temples and are worshiped as a symbol of their god Ahura Mazda.

The 15th Century statues of St Mark and Angels over the central arch of St Marks Basilica. The winged Lion of St Mark the symbol of Venice stands below the saint

Yin and Yang symbol painted onto a wall. Yin Yang originates in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics which describes two primal opposing but complementary forces found in all things in the univ...

Yin and Yang symbol painted onto a wall. Yin Yang originates in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics which describes two primal opposing but complementary forces found in all things in the univ...

Dogon rock paintings at sacred site of circumcision rituals which take place every three years. Each new initiate adds his own personal symbol.

Dogon rock paintings at sacred site of circumcision rituals which take place every three years. Each new initiate adds his own personal symbol.