Khani explained that the ritual, deeply rooted in Iran’s cultural and religious beliefs, reflects the importance of water in the agricultural economy of rural communities. “The scarcity of water has ...

Residents of three villages in Nakhon Sawan province in Thailand paraded a plush toy of the popular robot cat Doraemon in place of a real cat as part of a rainmaking ritual, as the country experiences ...

Seeking to appease the god of storms and end a drought, men and women in tiger costumes whip each other in an ancient ritual. A boy wears a tiger costume in the town of Zitlala in southern Mexico ...

ZIMUNYA, Zimbabwe, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Under worryingly clear skies, men gathered amid sparse, drought-shrivelled trees at the edge of this remote village in eastern Zimbabwe to sing ...

A towering "rain control" site, where shamans would have asked the gods to open up the skies centuries ago, has been discovered in South Africa. Located in a semiarid area of the country, near ...

CHARRED remains of ancient rainmaking fires are helping to date droughts in Iron Age Africa to within 20 years. After a several years of little or no rainfall, the Bantu people near modern-day ...

Introduction : Rainmaking, gender epistemologies, and explanation -- Ihanzu everyday worlds -- The making and unmaking of rains and reigns -- Gendered life-worlds and transformative processes -- ...

A towering "rain control" site, where shamans would have asked the gods to open up the skies centuries ago, has been discovered in South Africa. Located in a semiarid area of the country, near ...