Purify

December 20th, 2006

This picture recently ran in the Reader, the Telegraph Journal’s weekend magazine. It shows a priestess, not exactly the correct term, but close, smoking a huge Guatemalan cigar at the cult of Maximon near Antigua. This priestess was starting cigars for a younger Latino woman beside her who was in the process of smoking five of them as an act of purification. You can imagine what would happen after five cigars. Purified? Perhaps.

At the Cult of San Simon