Ritual Gallery

Sri Lanka - Geta Beraya and Udekkiya players

Traditional Sri Lankna drums and drummers. The standing player is holding a hill country drum called the Geta Beraya (a drum with a knot). This is the main drum used to accompany dance sequences in all Kandyan rituals. The right face is covered with the hide of a monkey or monitor lizard and the left side is covered with cattle hide, which is used to provide a finer sound. The seated player is holding a Udekkiya, a very handy drum predominantly used during Kandyan rituals and folk dances. It is played with one hand while handling and controlling the sound by pressure applied on the string and Sawarama with the other. Date: circa 1908

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The Girl. Costume design for the ballet The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) by I. Stravinsky, 1912. Artist: Roerich, Nicholas (1874-1947)

The Girl. Costume design for the ballet The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) by I. Stravinsky, 1912. Found in the collection of the State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

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Symbolic designs on the lid of the Pastos in the vault of the Adepts, c

RGL212699 Symbolic designs on the lid of the Pastos in the vault of the Adepts, c.1895 (coloured ink on paper) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Pastos was the tomb in which lay the mythical figure of Christian Rosencreutz, the legendary, perhaps allegorical, founder of the Rosicrucian Order; these symbolic designs show two aspects of the Christ, the lower in the form of the Crucified Jesus and the upper in the form of Alpha & Omega; the meaning of the symbols was explained to each new Adept in the Order of the Golden Dawn, a magical Rosicrucian order active in Great Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Adepts constituted the third and highest rank in the organisation of the order; Pastos A©tait la tombe dans laquelle reposait le personnage mythique de Christian Rosencreutz, le lA©gendaire, peut-Aªtre allA©gorique, fondateur de l'ordre de la Rose-Croix ; ces dessins symboliques montrent deux aspects du Christ, le bas sous la forme de JA©sus crucifiA© et le haut sous la forme d'Alpha & Omega ; la signification des symboles a A©tA© expliquA©e A  chaque nouvelle adepte de l'ordre de la Golden Dawn, un Ordre rosicrucien magique active en Grande-Bretagne au cours de la fin du XIXe et du dA©but du XXe siA¨cle; les Adeptes constituent le troisiA¨me et plus haut rang dans l'organisation de l'ordre;); English, out of copyright

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