EditorialSanda Dia’s stepbrother Samuel Labenne, in white, and stepsister Sarah, in the foreground, are comforted by friends after a protest in Leuven, Belgium on Sept. 4, 2020. (Sebastien Van Malleghem/The New York Times)
EditorialBacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rom...
EditorialBacchic rite. A naked Bacchus gives arms to cupid in front of a seated Venus and Ceres, while two assistants bring a platter of figs. Below is the initiation of a woman to the ultimate grade of the Bacchic rites. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli...
EditorialThe Gundestrup cauldron. Decorated silver vessel, thought to date between 200 BC and 300 AD, placing it within the late La Te_ne period or early Roman Iron Age. Gundestrup in the Aars parish of Himmerland, Denmark. Warrior's initiation. Bottom: row of ...
EditorialBacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rom...
EditorialBacchic rite. A naked Bacchus gives arms to cupid in front of a seated Venus and Ceres, while two assistants bring a platter of figs. Below is the initiation of a woman to the ultimate grade of the Bacchic rites. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli...
EditorialThe Gundestrup cauldron. Decorated silver vessel, thought to date between 200 BC and 300 AD, placing it within the late La Te_ne period or early Roman Iron Age. Gundestrup in the Aars parish of Himmerland, Denmark. Warrior's initiation. Bottom: row of ...
EditorialInitiation ceremonies for dGe-lugs-pa monks. Inscribed: ‘This represents the ceremonies attending the instalment or investment or investiture of a Lama of the Gelukpa’ [dGe-lugs-pa]’ sect.’. 1844 -1862. Watercolour. Tibetan school. See catalogu...
EditorialAltar to the Hand (Ikegobo), late 18th century, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Edo peoples, Bronze, H. 8 1/4 x Diam. 10 1/8 in. (21 x 25.7 cm), Metal-Sculpture, In the royal kingdom of Benin, cylindrical 'altars to the hand,' or ikegobo, are created to celeb...
EditorialThe Gundestrup cauldron. Decorated silver vessel, thought to date between 200 BC and 300 AD, placing it within the late La Te_ne period or early Roman Iron Age. Gundestrup in the Aars parish of Himmerland, Denmark. Warrior's initiation. Bottom: row of ...
EditorialAltar to the Hand (Ikegobo), late 18th century, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Edo peoples, Bronze, H. 8 1/4 x Diam. 10 1/8 in. (21 x 25.7 cm), Metal-Sculpture, In the royal kingdom of Benin, cylindrical 'altars to the hand,' or ikegobo, are created to celeb...
EditorialBacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rom...
EditorialBacchic rite. A naked Bacchus gives arms to cupid in front of a seated Venus and Ceres, while two assistants bring a platter of figs. Below is the initiation of a woman to the ultimate grade of the Bacchic rites. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli...
EditorialA native of Pondicherry, India, suspended on hooks through his skin from a moving beam in a dangerous initiation ceremony. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobia...
EditorialThe Gundestrup cauldron. Decorated silver vessel, thought to date between 200 BC and 300 AD, placing it within the late La Te_ne period or early Roman Iron Age. Gundestrup in the Aars parish of Himmerland, Denmark. Warrior's initiation. Bottom: row of ...
EditorialScene from the " Magic Flute", by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Probably a realistic record of the Vienna Frei-haustheater production of 1791. Both Mozart and writer Schikaneder were Freemasons and the trials of Papageno and Tamino are reminiscent...
EditorialMural from the villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii. The series of frescoes illustrates the rites of initiation of brides to the cult of Dionysos. Before 79 CE.