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A two-panel collage of a homa ceremony. The inset top-left shows a brick-lined fire pit with bright flames, a brass vessel and yellow flower petals on the white stone edges. The main panel shows many people in white clothes seated on mats around several brick fire pits, with flames and yellow flowers, a large decorated kalasha-like arrangement of offerings on the right, and a canopy with red and white draping and a framed image at the back. Several men in white kneel and tend the fires, while a standing figure in white at the centre-right performs the rite. The collage has no physical people beyond the photographed scene described here; the crowd is several dozen participants seated and standing across the ritual area.

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