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A homa fire burns on a stone platform at night, with bright flames rising from a pile of wooden logs and a bowl of offerings beside it. A man in white clothing sits behind the fire with a small instrument, another in white sits further back, and a figure in orange robes with beaded necklaces and bare arms tends the ritual at the right. White ritual cloth and small brass vessels lie on the ledge. Grains or rice scatter on the lower left.

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