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Photos of a pig sacrifice

August 25th, 2005 by Roy Berman		 Mutantfrog


I just posted this very brief introduction to porcine sacrifice in Taiwanese religion so I could post my own photos and people would know what they were actually looking at. Here’s a flickr set of photos I took yesterday during the setup and middle of a ceremony at a small neighborhood temple.

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    1. ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » Pig Sacrifices in Taiwan Says:
      August 26th, 2005 at 1:29 pm

      [...] Pig Sacrifices in Taiwan The two stories on pig sacrifices in Taipei over at MutantFrog are just amazing. Make sure you chec [...]

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