On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Thejaswi Udupa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think worshipping, celebrating, sacrificing as a group goes way way back, >> possibly to Neolithic or Stone Age times. >>
The St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva sits on top of several places of worship one top of the others. (If you are ever in Geneva you must visit and then go beneath the Church to see the excavated remains of previous churches and temples. During the excavations the researchers found the grave of some old chieftain. They now believe that the place in its earliest avatar, so to speak, was the grave of a local chieftain. And then it transformed over time to the Cathedral it is today. Many places of worship seem to start as some sort of funerary ritual place of memorial. I've been to Newgrange near Dublin, much much older than Stonehenge, which is also believed to be a funerary ritual place turned place of worship. Though this obviously would not be the genesis for temples in places where cremation ruled out graves. Just pitching in. Cheerio. -- * * *Sidin Sunny Vadukut* *Foreign Correspondent - Mint* *Editor - Mint Indulge* Flat 14, 71 E, Drayton Park London N51DH, UK Mobile: +44 757 244 1292 Fax: +44 203 318 2053 Web: http://www.livemint.com Blog: http://www.whatay.com @sidin
