FANTOMA

Kukeri [ Bulgarian: кукери ; singular : кукер,kuker ]  is a traditional Bulgarian ritual to scare away evil spirits, with a costumed man performing the ritual. The costumes cover most of the body and include decorated wooden masks of animals  / sometimes double-faced /  and large bells attached to the belt. Around New Year and before Lent, the kukeri walk and dance through the village to scare evil spirits away with the costumes and the sound of the bells, as well as to provide a good harvest, health, and happiness to the village during the year.

Voodoo In West Africa

Kreskin’s ESP board game, 1967

This is the Ouroboros (οὐράβόρο) an ancient symbol depicting a serpent devouring its own tail. The Ouroboros represents the perpetual cyclic renewal of life and infinity, the concept of eternity and the eternal return, and represents the cycle of life, death and rebirth. It also represents the “unity” or “God” complete with no duality, no good, no evil, no black, no white … just the undifferentiated “One”.

Representation of the ‘third eye’ connection to the ‘higher worlds’ by alchemist Robert Fludd, 17th century

Kenneth Anger, Lucifer Rising, 1972 

Kachina dancers, masked members of the Hopi Indian tribe, Arizona, 1908

Bella Coola Indians, brought to Germany by Captain Jacobsen, performing a dance from the winter ceremonial cycle in Berlin, 1885

(Via Discover, photo from the Visual6502 site)