Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit, Santuario dello Spirito Santo, Gangi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Unidentified people celebrating Chinese New Year in January 2025, Bangkok, Thailand

Stillsman inspecting copper spirit stills in the Stillshouse at Talisker Whisky Distillery making single malt whisky in Carbost on Isle of Skye, Scotland, United Kingodm, Europe

Cortejo do Espirito Santo, Holy Spirit Festivity Procession, Sao Jorge Island, Azores, Portugal, Europe

Festas do Espirito Santo, Holy Spirit Festivities, Riberinha, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic, Europe

Holy Spirit Festivities, Vila Nova, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic, Europe

Holy Spirit Festivities, Vila Nova, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic, Europe

Cachaca is a distilled spirit made from fermented sugarcane juice and a popular alcoholic beverage throughout Brazil, South America

A little girl getting into the spirit of things with a taiko drum at the Sanja Festival in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, Asia

Formerly built to re-house the spirit from the ficus tree, donations of phallic symbols have resulted in the shrine being dedicated to fertility, Chao Mae Tuptim (Shrine of the Goddess Tuptim), Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Whiskey and spirit bottles lined up along bar, Georgetown, Washington DC, USA

Participants wearing historical costumes on parade, Noto, Noto Valley, Sicily, Italy

Participants wearing historical costumes on parade, Noto, Noto Valley, Sicily, Italy

Participants wearing historical costumes on parade, Noto, Noto Valley, Sicily, Italy

Participants wearing historical costumes on parade, Noto, Noto Valley, Sicily, Italy

Descent of the Holy Spirit, Our Lady of the Assumption church, Cordon, Haute-Savoie, France, Europe

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

Statue of a resting horse, Spirit Way, Ming Tombs, Changling, Beijing, China

Statue of a high civil official, advisor to the emperor, on Spirit Way at Ming Tombs site, Changling, Beijing, China

The ceiling frescoes in Heiliggeistkirche, church of the Holy Spirit, painted by Cosmas Damian Asam, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

The Spirit of Sir John A, CPR Engine 1095 built by Canadian Locomotive Company in 1913, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, North America

Thousands of trees blown down by the 1980 eruption still floating on Spirit Lake north of the mountain, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington State, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Apache Mountain Spirit Dancer sculpture by Craig Dan Goseyun and Anthropology Laboratory, New Mexico Museum, Museum Hill, City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, North America

Man with alembique spirit still, Western Loire, France, Europe

Rolls Royce radiator cap, the spirit of ecstasy, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Holy Spirit, Am Steinhof church (Church Leopold), Vienna, Austria, Europe

Statue of a military officer on Spirit Way at the Ming Tombs site, Changling, Beijing, China

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

Lava dome in crater seen from rim, Mount St. Helens after 1980 eruption, with Spirit Lake and Mount Rainier in the distance, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington State, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Spirit Lake in the landscape north of Mount St. Helens devastated by the 1980 eruption, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington State, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Apache Mountain Spirit Dancer sculpture by Craig Dan Goseyun and Anthropology Laboratory, New Mexico Museum, Museum Hill, City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, North America

Statue of a standing Xiezi, mythical Chinese Unicorn, on Spirit Way at the Ming Tombs site, Beijing, China

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

Cross and Holy Spirit, World Youth Day in 2008, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Heiliggeistkirche church holy spirit dove by Joseph Plecnik, Vienna, Austria, Europe

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

Holy Spirit, Brazzaville, Congo, Africa

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

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

Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit, Franciscan Church of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Hands of Caucasian women using a Ouija board

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Interior of golden temple, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Pilgrims praying, 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.

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

Pilgrims making a ritual offering, and praying, ghats in Ganges river, 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.

Danny Cameron at The Dyfi distillery, artisan gin by Pete Cameron and Danny Cameron, Corris, Machynlleth, Wales

Sadhu meditating, 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

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

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