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Re: Nishinihon / Higashinihon

Apr 21, 2004, 20:46

I would have added this to the "other thread" but I agree that's it's getting way too big...

The monuments we all so love are the fruit of settling, it seems. Therefore they represent the very beginning of civil-ization. Yet as civilization's sworn enemy, I still love these monuments. Why?

When I look at, say, Avebury or Callanish, its impossible for me to see such beautiful and artistic creations as an evil. Its a much-worn cliche that has been brought into disrepute by a lot of new-age "literature", but they are clearly the work of a people who sought to be in harmony with nature. What else could the harmony of land and sky that is Sleeping Beauty's lunar theatre possibly imply?

The monuments are like gateways between the times when we felt the deep connection to the land and sky that Morfe has talked about in "the other thread" and the times of civilization. As such they point the way to the recovery of that perspective, as well as being symbols of our "expulsion" from Eden.

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Nishinihon / Higashinihon – Annexus Quam, Apr 21, 2004, 15:22


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