Ritual sacrifice atop Bromo


Frugal lot: Villagers using nets to catch offerings thrown by the Tengger community in the crater of the active Mount Bromo volcano as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival in Probolinggo, East Java province. — AFP

Thousands of Hindu worshippers climbed an active volcano to throw offerings from crops to livestock down its smouldering crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony.

Every year, people from the Tengger tribe gather from villages in the highlands around Mount Bromo to trek to its peak to cast goats, chickens, fruit, flowers and vegetables into its crater as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival.

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