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  • The Cult of Beauty, advertisement for Hazeli
  • People in Nagasaki trampling on Christian cult images. Etching, ca. 1789.
  • Egypt: ceremonies of the cult of Isis. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • Egypt: ceremonies of the cult of Isis. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • Headless statue of Aesculapius, copy of a cult statue of the 4th or 3rd century B.C.
  • Our Lady of Treguron, one of a series ofn Breton statues. Invoked by pregnant women but a purely local cult.
  • Antoiniste cult followers, Liège: a father and two daughters on their way to the Temple of the Antoinistes. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940 (?).
  • Temple of the Antoinistes, Liège: the chancel end showing the tenets of the cult marked on the wall in large letters. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940 (?).
  • Yoruba Ibedji (effigies) representing dead twins, Nigeria, West Africa. Some Yoruba tribes revere twins, who are thought to bring luck to household and tribe. The death of one is a great calamity. A wooden figure, called Ibedji, is made to house the spirit of the dead child and be a companion for the surviving twin. The Ibedji figure becomes a cult-object in the family and the mother tends it, offers it food and decks it with beads, cowrie shells, red camwood and other adornments.
  • A dancing couple from the Pujari caste. Gouache drawing.
  • Two yogis, one meditating, the other performing a fire ritual. Gouache drawing.
  • Two begging Brahmans carrying a religious altar and symbols. Gouache drawing.
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Statuette of Silvanus, the God of the Woods
  • Statuette of Aesculapius excavated at Homs.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • Dattatreya accompanied by his four dogs among cows. Chromolithograph.
  • Temple of the Antoinistes, Liège: the congregation leaving the church. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940.
  • Rembrandt at the door of the Amsterdam anatomy theatre. Process print, 1927, of an engraving by C. L. van Kesteren after C. Bisschop.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
  • Eberhard Welper. Line engraving by P. Aubry, 1652.
  • An evil demon (dMu) who causes dropsy. Watercolour by a Tibetan painter.
  • A man standing barechested with his arms behind his back. Photograph, 190-.
  • A man standing barechested with his arms behind his back. Photograph, 190-.
  • Upper Egypt, sacred lake in Dendara
  • Saint Sebastian. Process print after Guido Reni, 190-.
  • Saint Sebastian. Process print, 190-.