Is it normal to take your clothes off to pray for salvation?
There's a place called Bucharach in southeast France and many people from all over the world are congregating awaiting the end of the world to happen on 21 December 2012. One guy has climbed the local mountain and performed a ritual in the nude. Whether he was praying to avert the disaster or embrace it, I just wouldn't know. Personally, I think it was just a pretext to masturbate in front of bare rocks.