There are fourteen women who live in the small, dilapidated two-story house, sent there to expiate bad karma, as well as to relieve their families of financial and emotional burdens.
This has led to the generally accepted conclusion that the custom of hanging these "oscilla" represents an older practice of expiating human sacrifice.
The penitent huntsman added his arquebus to the shrine and began to collect the large sum of money which would be needed to repair the damage and expiate his sin.
Like many fashion photographers, he seems to be trying to expiate guilts by having another life, by walking away from the values of the profession....:::::::.....