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joeylphotographer:

Monkey skulls adorn the Mentawaian homes. The skulls are there to notify the other animals of the forest that their death was not in vain, and that the shaman’s took the care to ensure their spirit was not angered in the hunt.

Read the entire story in my journals here.


© JOEY L

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delucazade:

A rose is held up to the face of Rokshana Rahimi who was near death at Herat Public Hospital. Rokshana set herself on fire when her husband, who left her to go to Iran 14 years earlier, demanded she return to him. She died in the hospital from her wounds. More than 700 women have set themselves on fire in Afghanistan, in a desperate cry for help.

Stephanie Sinclair

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scuzzlebutt:

This is not a puff of smoke inside a room. It’s a real cloud, just like the ones in the sky, made of microscopic water droplets, but trapped in a closed building. Unlike naturally generated clouds, this one is completely artificial.

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shadesandshadows:

Hecate (or Hekate), 1901, pastel by Maximilian Pirner, Czechoslovakian, 1854-1924.

The three-bodied goddess in this very unusual artwork holds a key, a sword and a torch. The key may be a symbol for the afterlife; the sword a symbol for war or death and the torch a symbol of light to show the way.

  Hecate is the Greek-Roman goddess of witchcraft, magic, crossroads, necromancy, wilderness and childbirth. Quite a combination for one goddess to oversee.

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The world’s most hauntingly atmospheric cemetery, Highgate Cemetery, occupies a spectacular hillside site in Highgate, north London. Opened in 1839, it quickly became a fashionable locale for the wealthy and death-obsessed Victorians; who romanticised and positively enjoyed the rituals and artefacts surrounding its occurrence. A wealth of Gothic tombs, mausoleums, crypts, archways, gates, and other stone architecture (along with cunningly placed creepers, vines, shrubbery, and spooky trees) create a fantastically Dickensian scene that seduces billions of tourists each year. Yes you read that correctly. Ninety billion tourists last year alone. (image jobaba on flickr)

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victoriousvocabulary:

BULIMAREXIA

[noun]

a syndrome in which the symptoms of both bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa are present, characterised by distorted body image, excessive weight loss, and use of forced vomiting to compensate for periods of binge eating.

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skinned-teen:

The Kiss (Le Baiser), New Mexico, 1982, is an image of a single autopsied head that’s been sliced in half down the middle, and posed as two separate beings locked in a kiss.

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forensicsandpathology:

Decompositional changes are dependent upon the environment. At moderate temeratures, decompositional changes will not accur for a day or two. Then rigor mortis passes, and the body begins to swell and discolour, hair slips off, and marbling forms. By this time, decomposed blood and body fluids come out of the body orifices (called purging). After weeks or months, skeletonization takes place. Occasionally, bodies may decompose more in one part of the body than the other because of injuries, amound of clothing, or intrusion by insects and animals.