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A photograph of a homa fire ritual in a fire pit lined with yellow bricks decorated with white painted patterns. Tall orange flames and smoke rise from wood and offerings laid in the pit. On the right, a person in a cream-coloured head wrap and cream clothing holds a long wooden stick over the fire. On the left, a bare forearm with white painted markings and a wristwatch reaches toward the fire with an offering. A small brass bowl of yellow liquid sits on the pit edge. Behind, a striped rug in green, blue, red and purple is spread on the floor, with a brass lamp stand at the left edge.

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