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Re: "Sacred" as a prehistoric adjec...

Aug 09, 2005, 09:34

This is a very good thread. I agree with Paulus' point...

When I first became interested in standing stones/tribal societies etc, I used to visit sites where such people had walked and left their marks... such as Stonehenge, Avebury and the like. I thought that West Yorkshire couldn't be further away from such experiences... then I discovered Ilkley Moor and other local sites and visited these places to see the marks of British Tribal Society.

More recently, I have realised that ancient tribal people probably left their marks everywhere in some way, shape or form. Be it a scrap of folklore, a hill name, a long disappeared settlement or field system, an old track that has become a road. We are closer to such things than we often imagine. I think of this as a good maxim for approaching 'sacredness', in so much as everything around them was probably sacred, or profound in some way. Maybe standing stones, cairns, rock art etc marked out boundaries of significance?

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