Banknotes, coins and oranges left as offerings on and around a smiling male deity sitting in a simple shrine with a solid granite roof on Barra Hill in Macau, China. A-Ma / Tin Hau, the Taoist mother-goddess and protector of seafarers, is said to have ascended to heaven from Barra Hill after surviving a shipwreck. The hill now overlooks the prayer halls and pavilions of the A-Ma Temple, which was founded in 1488 during the Ming Dynasty.

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Macau, China: offerings of banknotes, coins and oranges left on and around a smiling male deity sitting cross-legged in a simple shrine with a solid granite roof on Barra Hill, from which A-Ma / Tin Hau, Taoist mother-goddess and protector of seafarers, is said to have ascended to heaven after surviving a shipwreck. The hill now overlooks the prayer halls and pavilions of the A-Ma Temple, which was founded in 1488 during the Ming Dynasty.

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Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: A-Ma Temple, Barra Hill, Macau, China.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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