A primal heart still beats in Europe. Deep beneath the gloss of cell phone sophistication lie rituals that hark back to harvests and solstices and fear of the winter dark. Monsters loom in this shadowy heart, but so does the promise of spring’s rebirth and fertile crops and women cradling newborn babes. It turns out that Europe — at least pockets of it — has not lost its connection to nature’s rhythms…Full Story Here!
Text by Rachel Hartigan Shea via National Geographic
Photographs by Charles Fréger













































































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Texasshole
January 19, 2017 at 10:52 pm
Amazing how much some of these look like the Kachina dolls of the First Nations of the American southwest.
Paul Wilson
January 17, 2017 at 4:27 pm
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Zene Zantinga
January 17, 2017 at 3:22 pm
Dajana Heremic Check it oot!
Dajana Heremic
January 20, 2017 at 2:05 am
FUCK YEAH! 😀 hahah ja machtig mooi he, ik heb het wel eens gezien toen ik klein was! Wouw
João Nuno Ramos
January 17, 2017 at 1:23 pm
Rita
Rita Jorge
January 17, 2017 at 3:23 pm
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