Ready to smoulder: stacks of wrapped new incense coils ready to be burned in the A-Ma Temple in Macau China. The temple was founded in 1488, during the Ming Dynasty, in the place where Taoist mother-goddess A-Ma or Tin Hau, protector of seafarers, is said to have landed after a shipwreck, before rising to heaven from the top of nearby Barra Hill.
Macau, China: stacks of wrapped new incense coils ready to be burned in the A-Ma Temple, which was founded in 1488, during the Ming Dynasty, in the place where A-Ma or Tin Hau, the Taoist mother-goddess and protector of seafarers, is said to have landed after surviving a shipwreck. She is believed to have later ascended to heaven from the peak of nearby Barra Hill. Like other traditional Chinese temples, most flat surfaces within the A-Ma Temple are covered in layers of dust: ash from the slow-burning incense coils hanging above worshippers’ heads.
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Location: A-Ma Temple, Macau, China.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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