Brazilians gather on Copacabana beach to make their annual New Year's
offerings to the Afro-Brazilian goddess of sea and fertility.

Flowers and candles set afloat in the Atlantic.

While Rio readies for its massive New Year's Eve party, hundreds of
Brazilians have already gathered on Copacabana beach to make offerings to
Iemanja, the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea and fertility.

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