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nigelswift
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Re: "Sacred" as a prehistoric adjec...
Aug 07, 2005, 23:17
I think "sacred" isn't just woolly it's also speculative, which is worse.

Were the sites themselves or the references that inspired them considered "sacred" by the people who built them? We don't know.
Are they "sacred" to modern people? No, not by reference to a knowledge of the past, only by modern individual choice.

I think they are areas of "reverence", then and now. This actually puts tombs in the same bracket of old and modern appreciation as stone circles, which is nice. To "revere" you don't need to get involved with complicated speculations about deities and worship, so neolithic people and modern atheists, pagans and Christians can all be on the same wavelength and appreciate them equally as human beings, which again is nice...
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