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Night photograph of a homa at a square fire pit built of white brick, with a bright flame rising from the centre and red and orange flower petals scattered on the brick rim. Several people in white ritual clothing stand around it at night, some holding round metal plates or trays of offerings toward the fire. One man in front bends over the pit tending the flame. A young man in white kneels at the left edge beside brass vessels, and a woman in a white and orange dotted sari stands at the far left. A woman at the right wears a red shawl and dark trousers and stretches an arm out to a plate.

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