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Re: "Sacred" as a prehistoric adjec...
Aug 08, 2005, 09:50
Stop looking at the monuments and start looking out from them. The world changes.

I hold with Paulus and FW last statement. Its the world around us we should be trying to contemplate and understand, that was the experience of all these people that built stone circles, long and round barrows, henges. They had functions as meeting places, having fun, trading things all these things and more. They practised (in whatever way) things we now term as religious - that is our understanding of the word.
But above all they had to survive, on a day to day basis, they had to know the physical, and very beautiful world they occupied. Its hills, mountains streams and rivers, its weather,night and day, the sun, moon, stars, the fish, animals, plants and trees. We only scratch at the meanings with our modern interpretations, dance delightedly when we find an extra thread of knowledge.
Surely what this site tells us that they used technology to choose their old rocks and stones, the thrusting force of knowledge, was just as much part of their lives as it is today and we should respect that.
No one has used the word liminal to describe what we can feel, and what they must have also felt, as you stand very still and allow time to disappear and the past to come to the fore, the landscape though altered in many ways still holds within its framework the past histories of all those people that once lived, and ritual, sacred and religious are just made up words to define an experience that can be both personal and communal, and of course enforced.... but thats another story..
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