Traditions, customs and local flavor. Everything from street culture to tribes of Amazon.
This is the playlist that should've become a channel when I got my 250, if it weren't for the *Cult :(
France24 reports from the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music - Artists from East and West, from all of the world's main religions, meet every year in the Moroccan spiritual city of Fes to promote understanding... continue reading
posted by gwaan
1 decade 7 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 2,167 viewsA slightly less than 10-minute video that describes ritual stone structures made by the Native American populations over the centuries, scattered throughout northeastern America. If MarineGunrock or any... continue reading
posted by kronosposeidon
1 decade 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 3,771 views • 8:52Terence McKenna's documentary about going to the Amazon rainforest to paticipate in a hallucinogenic Ayahuasca ritual with two Amazon shamans.
posted by persephone 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,254 viewsFrom YouTube Even before absinthe was banned in Europe and the United States, the herbal liqueur had a long history with artists and writers. During the century-long absinthe-ban, the drink reached near-mythical... continue reading
posted by Zonbie
1 decade 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,403 viewsPagan people share their views on worshiping - in the nude.
posted by LadyDeath
1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 93,550 viewsPeyote visions are considered good luck and dispensed to those deemed worthy by the god-spirits. Peyote, the Huicholes believe, opens the mind to a new way of experiencing the world. For centuries they... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 2,050 viewsNudity. Bruce Parry is brilliant - He's seriously hardcore, and will try anything to fit into the culture he is spending time with (and make great tele). In this clip he performs a nervewracking ritual... continue reading
posted by Eden 1 decade 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 14,341 views • 4:59A ritual of passage for a South Korean girl requires dancing barefoot on top of sharp knives.
posted by Issykitty 1 decade 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,619 views"In the Lambeyeque valley in Northern Peru lies a strange lost world - the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks. ... continue reading
posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 9 months ago • 2,838 viewsA subculture pierces people through skin and suspends them from the ceiling.
posted by LadyDeath 1 decade 6 years ago • 2,744 viewsStumbled upon this, found it painful to watch, so I thought I'd share it :P
posted by WaterDweller
1 decade 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 7,436 viewsThis is the 'land diving' (Naghol) ritual of southern Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. With much encouragement from an excited crowd, a young man leaps from the top of a tower in the jungle with vines attached... continue reading
posted by Eden 1 decade 7 years 6 months ago • 2,285 viewsWhen you're a member of the South Pacific Vanuatu, by the time you get to be eight-years-old or so it's high time to prove your masculinity. And what better way to prove you're ready to take on the challenges... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 2,529 viewsFailure. Of. Humanity. Sad or hilarious? Or arranged marriage ahead of schedule? :p
posted by Krupo 1 decade 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 2,658 viewsVia Reuters: Mar 13 - Rare panels showing monsters, gods and serpents in an ancient creation myth are found in El Mirador, the ruined Mayan city in Guatemala.
posted by Gratefulmom 1 decade 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,504 viewsThis is 'Dance Fever' from 1981 film 'Ellem Emba Mayan' and is awesome on many levels.
posted by dystopianfuturetoday 1 decade 5 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 2,430 viewsThe History channel documentary on the Mayans, their prophecies and the 2012 "doomsday".
posted by thesnipe 1 decade 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 2,995 viewsWhy did the Maya abandon their magnificent city of Chichen Itza?
posted by Issykitty 1 decade 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 2,711 viewsThe Pyramid of Kukulkan produces an interesting acoustic response to hand clapping that many describe as a bird call.
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