The worship of the python. Indiolali ceremony. Python god Adumu. Priests and priestesses.
Python worship. Serpent worship in Afrika.
Category: Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical dresses and antiques. Medieval, Byzantine.
The apotheosis of Augustus.
Apotheosis was the name for a ceremony performed by the Romans to admit emperors, empresses or other mortals to the ranks of the gods or heroes.
The Great Bell at Chio-In temple, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto.
Chion-in (monastery of Gratitude), in Higashiyama-ku, is the principal Buddhist monastery of the Jōdo sect.
Japan. Buddhist Priests
Buddhism. The existence of a supreme God is ignored, and life is regarded as an evil.
The Inari Temple at Kyōto, Japan.
The Fushimi Inari-Taisha is a Shintō shrine in the Fushimi district of Kyōto city.
Episcopal costume. The Mitra Pretiosa of the 14th c.
Episcopal costume and insignia. The mitre, the cross, the superhumeral, the ring, the gloves, the shoes.
Odet de Coligny, Cardinal de Châtillon.
French Huguenot leader, Catholic prelate of the Renaissance
Portrait of John Knox. Scottish clergyman, writer and historian.
John Knox is considered as one of the founders of the Scottish Reformation
Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England.
Ely Cathedral is considered a masterpiece of medieval architecture.
Lama (priest of Lhasa) and Tibetan women c. 1890.
Tibetan clothing of a Lama Priest of Lhasa and traditional Tibetan women dress culture.