Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Blessed Beast

Blessed Beast

Photograph by Aaron Huey, National Geographic

Traditions endure in the Svaneti region, high in Georgia s Caucasus Mountains. Here, a bull with candles on its horns is blessed at a tenth-century church near the town of Mestia before being sacrificed for a February feast dating from pre-Christian times.

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