Video: Friendly Corpse Eater Cannibals: Varanasi Akhgori Hermits in a Heartfelt Photo Series
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
According to Hindu beliefs, Aghori hermits (holy cannibals-corpse-eaters): conduct shocking rituals, live near cremation grounds, meditate among corpses, eat human flesh and send curses - in order to gain spiritual enlightenment. Photographer Christiano Austinelli (Cristiano Ostinelli), went to Varanasi to find out how things really are.
He spent some time among the terrifying cultists and took stunning pictures in which such gloomy priests who worship the Hindu god Shiva look quite friendly.
Another travel photographer Joey L. (Joey L.), while on a trip to India, continued his long-term photo-project "Holy Men" … With two close friends and colleagues, he spent a month in Varanasi photographing sadhus - spiritual gurus, ascetics and healers.
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