Tibetan cheek piercing sacrifice

Published: 26 August 2009 y., Wednesday

Each summer these Tibetan villagers offer a bloody sacrifice. Cheek piercing is one of the rituals offered for the local mountain gods in China's Qinghai province during the Tibetan Lurol festival. The more you bleed, the more sins you have committed.

 

Šaltinis: Reuters
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