Statue of a standing elephant, Spirit Way, Ming Tombs, Beijing (Peking), China

Interior of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit, the chief Russian Orthodox church of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, Baltic States, Europe

Spirit of Haida Gwaii, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec Province, Canada, North America

Statue of a resting lion, Spirit Way, Ming Tombs, Beijing (Peking), China

Spirit House at Jim Thompson's house, Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Statue of a stading camel, Spirit Way, Ming Tombs, Beijing (Peking), China

Holy Spirit, Brazzaville, Congo, Africa

Spirit of Bermuda sloop in the Royal Naval Dockyard, Sandys Parish, Bermuda, Central America

Interior, Dominican Church of the Holy Spirit, Dominikonu Street, Vilnius, Lithuania, Baltic States, Europe

Blast area of 1980 eruption with destroyed forest, floating timber on Spirit Lake and new crater, Washington State., United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Spirit House at Jim Thompson's house, Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Eucharist, Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Anglican Church of St. James, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Holy Spirit mosaic, Vienna, Austria, Europe

Spirit house, Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Humla, shamans. shamans central to ceremonial life, with their spirit possession high point of every collective ritual. Their white wool tufted turnans match description of zhangzhung’s priests

Wearing tree bark cloth masks and skirts, dancers representing fish spirits are invited during the season of the peach palm harvest to drink the juice. it is a feast and ritual exchange: the host group offers the spirits large quantities of peach palm juice, smoked meat and fish, and shaman-blessed coca and snuff. the visitors are the costumed dancers impersonating animal spirits. people eat the meat and fish, animal spirits receive the fruits of peach palm, which are cultivated, harvested, and processed by humans. this exchange expresses the idea that people and animals depend on each other for survival and reproduction. vaupes basin, eastern colombia amazon, population: 600

Yoruba women dance in trance at a sacred water festival to honor their animistic spirits. nigeria, africa

The idea of the interconnectedness of all things is central to the tribal way of looking at the world. practical knowledge of the environment, of crops and medicines, of hunting and fishing, is a byproduct of it. the makuna believe that human beings, animals, and all of nature are parts of the same one. animals and fish live in their own communities, which are just like human communities, with their chiefs, their shamans, their dance houses, their songs, and their material possessions. when human peoples dance in this world, the shaman invites the animal people to dance in theirs. if humans do not dance and shamans do not offer spirit food to the animal people, the animals will die out and there will be no more game left in the world. for the makuna the radical disjunction so characteristic of western thought between nature and culture, men and animals, dissolves. eastern colombia amazon, vaupes region, population: 600

Spirit houses, Eklutna Historical Village, Anchorage area, Alaska, United States of America, North America

Participant in the annual Minstrels procession (also referred to as the Coon Carnival) in Cape Town.

Spirit of St. Louis plane, Air and Space Museum, National Mall, Washington D.C., United States of America, North America

HONG KONG Holy Spirit Seminary and Study Center. photo by Sean Sprague

Spirit of St. Louis aeroplane, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, United States of America, North America

An IDP camp (internally displaced people) in Te-Tugu district of Northern Uganda has been created to accommodate the mass of Ugandan refugees fleeing the LRA (Lords Resistance Army) who are fighting the Ugandan government and its people. With population sizes equivalent to small towns, this camp has a real community spirit. Te-Tugu, Uganda, East Africa

Adult humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) tail throw beside the charter yacht Safari Spirit in Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean. Not property released. (rr)

The American Safari Cruises yacht Safari Spirit operating in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

Two adult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfacing beside the charter yacht Safari Spirit in Chatham Strait, southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

The American Safari Cruises yacht Safari Spirit operating in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

Adult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) fluke-up dive in front of the charter yacht Safari Spirit in Freshwater Bay on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA

Portrait of neighbors sitting on front stoop holding plants

Hispanic couple planting in raised garden

Hispanic couple planting in raised garden

Portrait of smiling Black man holding shovel and buckets

Portrait of neighbors holding plants near house

Neighbors planting in raised garden

Black boy swinging multiple plastic hoops around waist

Caucasian girl sliding in water on outdoor plastic tarp

Hands of Caucasian women using a Ouija board

Praying, in Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, Delhi, India

pilgrim bathing in the sacred pool Amrit Sarovar, Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Sadhus sleeping, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Barber shaving the head and beard of a pilgrim, Dashashwamedh ghat (main ghat), in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Pilgrims praying and bathing, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

pilgrim bathing in the sacred pool Amrit Sarovar, Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Interior of golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

pilgrims and sacred pool Amrit Sarovar, Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Sadhu meditating, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

The flower market,Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pilgrims praying and bathing, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Cremation of bodies, in Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat, on the banks of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Sadhu meditating, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Aztec Cihuateotl. Mexico, Aztec. Late 15th-early 16th century. Stone. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 82nd Street Manhattan New USA

Cremation of a body, in Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat, on the banks of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Every night, Nightly puja on Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Baeber shaving the head and beard of a pilgrim, Dashashwamedh ghat (main ghat), in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Pilgrims praying and bathing, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Bamboo to hold, at its top, baskets with offerings, in Panch Ganga Ghat, Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Woman making offering, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

The flower market,Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pilgrims praying and bathing, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Pilgrims in a boat sailing and praying, Ganges river, in background the ghats, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Pilgrims making a ritual offering and praying, ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat, on the banks of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Pilgrims praying and bathing, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Dashashwamedh ghat (main ghat), in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

pilgrim and sacred pool Amrit Sarovar, Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Pilgrims walking, in Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Every night, Nightly puja on Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

In first position the rooftop of Manikarnika ghat, general view of ghats rooftops, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

pilgrims and sacred pool Amrit Sarovar, Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Pilgrims making a ritual offering and praying, ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Sadhus praying and begging, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, Delhi, India

A man praying, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Pilgrims making a ritual offering, and praying, ghats in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Cremation of bodies, in Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat, on the banks of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Lotus Temple of the Bahai faith, New Delhi, India.

The flower market,Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Sadhus begging, in Dashashwamedh Ghat Road , Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Pilgrim making a ritual offering and praying, ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

pilgrim bathing in the sacred pool Amrit Sarovar, Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Sadhus sleeping, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Every night, Nightly puja on Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

People carry a body, to burn, going to Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

woman and man selling flowers for the puja ceremony in Dashashwamedh ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Lotus Temple of the Bahai faith, New Delhi, India.

Pilgrims praying, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Local people inside a house in Gyantse village or Gyangze town, Tibet, China. Located in the northeast of Gyantse at 3900 meters above sea level. Pelkor Chode Monastery, or rather Palcho Monastery in Tibetan language means auspicious monastery. It was first built in early 15th century and took 10 years to complete. Because it was built when different religious sectors conflicted neck and neck in Tibet, Sakyapa, Kadampa and Gelukpa of Tibetan Buddhism coexist in it. Each religious sector has five to six Dratsang schools in the monastery.

La Ken La pass or Laken pass at 5190 metres on the road to remote Nam Tso Lake Tibet. Namtso Lake Tibet China. Prayer flags next to the base of Mount Nyenchen Tanglha 7111 meters high, Tibet China. One of the holy mountains for Tibetans. The Nyenchen Tanglha is the highest peak of the Nyainqentanglha mountain. It is located near Lhasa, on the Qinghai-Tibet paved road. It is surrounded by grassy plains from Damshung to the south and to the picturesque sacred Nam Tso Lake (4,700 m, one of the largest lakes in the world) in the north.

Namtso lake or Nam tso lake in Tibet China. Nam Tso Lake is the second largest lake in Tibet, and one of the most famous places on the "Roof of the World". The lake itself is located at an altitude of 4,718 m, and has an area of 1,920 km². This lake is the largest of the lakes in the Tibet Autonomous Region, although it is not the largest on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, a title that belongs to Lake Qinghai, more than twice the area of Namtso, which is more than 1,000 km, in the northeast, in Qinghai province.

La Ken La pass or Laken pass at 5190 metres on the road to remote Nam Tso Lake Tibet. Namtso Lake Tibet China. Prayer flags next to the base of Mount Nyenchen Tanglha 7111 meters high, Tibet China. One of the holy mountains for Tibetans. The Nyenchen Tanglha is the highest peak of the Nyainqentanglha mountain. It is located near Lhasa, on the Qinghai-Tibet paved road. It is surrounded by grassy plains from Damshung to the south and to the picturesque sacred Nam Tso Lake (4,700 m, one of the largest lakes in the world) in the north.

Tsepak Lhakhang Monastery. Lhasa Tibet China. Outside of Ramoche Temple. The women make a procession around the temple to ask the god of longevity Cherisi chepal to have a good delivery, or old people to pray to him.

Mythological demon statue at Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, (Rangoon), Myanmar, (Burma)

Pilgrims making a ritual offering, and praying, ghats in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Person who recovers wood used in cremation, which has not burned completely, in Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat, on the banks of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.