Some Statues

I was walking across East 6th Street this past week, when I saw some statues on the sidewalk:

Some statues.

The one on the right looks like a combination of images from tarot cards: the wand, the cup, and of course the tower!

The middle one looks like a troll. It just does.

And of course there's Mary — Mary is very popular in the East Village!

I don't know why these statues were on the sidewalk this way. Were they for sale? Free for the taking? Lost? No one knows.

UPDATED 6/19

After receiving the first comment below, I went back to this picture and made a close-up of the statues:

Close-up.

Mary is still Mary, and the middle one still looks like a troll, but…

The tarot-card statue is St. Barbara, the patron saint of armourers, artillerymen, military engineers, miners, and others who work with explosives, and also of mathematicians!

So now we know: They were lost!

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The Procession

It will probably come as no surprise that the East Village is one of the most religious neighborhood in New York City! It's all God and Country here!

I was walking across East 6th Street this past Saturday, and as I approached Avenue C, I saw at the corner a group of people, some holding signs, with a police car beside them.

"What's this?" I thought. "A Black Lives Matter protest? Workers on strike?"

But it was neither of these — it was a religious procession! I'm not sure what the occasion was, but East Villagers don't need a special occasion to… well, the video speaks for itself:

I'll bet that ending surprised you, didn't it? It surprised me!

East Villagers love surprise endings!

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Mary Totem

People think of the East Village as a place dominated by pagans, and that's probably true, but the Cult of Mary is strong here also, as you can see by this statue taped to a tree on East 5th Street:

Mary totem.

It looks like a voodoo shrine, with its mixture of Christian statues and tree branches.

I wonder if their wish was granted?!

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