And if you get way out in the fringes of the New-age/mysticism crowd, you can learn about Ley lines and how the places they cross are invariably sacred across the centuries, etc
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Sidin Vadukut <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
