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Night photo of a Shiva lingam ritual outdoors. A man with long dark hair and a beard, dressed in a white kurta, bends forward and works with his hands on a tall stone lingam set in a black yoni-shaped base on a blue-grey platform, with white powder being applied to the lingam and a white bowl of powder beside it. Behind him a standing man in white clothes with a rudraksha mala around his neck watches with hands clasped. Other people in white and a man in a brown vest stand at the left edge near a boombox. Brass oil lamps stand at the left and right, and reddish rock formations surround the shrine. Three to four people are visible.

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