1.   As part of the ceremony a cow was slaughtered and placed on the stone altar.

2.   Dozens of crosses and stone altars have been placed along the sides of the road in remembrance of the thousands who have died on the road this century.

3.   Instead, their graves held mortuary offerings like small clay or stone altars, bronze mirrors, bronze spoons and seashells.

4.   Matisse also designed the stone altar, a bronze cross, colorful vestments and the carved door to the confessional.

5.   The tribal chief paid homage to the four directions as he stood with a stone altar balanced on his head, turning north, south, east and west.

6.   A marble bookcase holds prayer books alongside a stone altar filled with burning memorial candles.

7.   Four caskets and an urn, all covered with white sheets, lay at the white stone altar.

8.   The lama told Giorgio to place the Sox cap next to a stone altar where each climbing team burns juniper branches as an offering to the gods.