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A photograph of a stage set for a ritual or festival performance, with a white draped backdrop shaped like mountain peaks and a dark curtain above. On the left stands a large silver-toned deity murti with raised hands. In the centre, a man in a red-brown dhoti and a matching orange-red turban wears a long garland of red flowers and a rudraksha-style mala, standing beside a smaller decorated murti. Further right are several more silver and gold deity figures, a kalasha-like pillar, and a floral arch with pink, green and yellow garlands framing a figure. Green leaves and vines line the platform's front edge. At the right foreground, men in white clothes sit cross-legged near the stage. Lights and a few audience silhouettes appear at the bottom. Only the man in red and the seated men in white are physical people; the statues are murtis.

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