Taking us on a journey through the history of sacred art and
architecture, Sacred Sites explores the myriads of ways in which we
imbue our environments with profound and enduring meaning. From
our early designation of nature and the body as temple to our
futuristic embrace of imaginary realms, we travel the vast and mystical
landscapes of myth, religion, and imagination.
Through gathering, we ignite our spaces with spirit, we circle the
bonfire, bow down at the forest altar, give praise at the temple to our
chosen divinities. Through pilgrimage, we carve indelible
pathways, making our meditative way across continents, generations of
footsteps treading, again and again, upon sacred grounds. And through
our creative offerings to spirit - we envision new worlds, wildly
imaginative odes to what we deem as holy; golden temples hewn of rock,
enormous spirals sculpted from sand and soil, silent sanctuaries hidden
among wooded groves. We paint the ancient cave walls, carve petroglyphs
to mark the way, place roses in veneration at the candlelit
shrine.
Slowly, stone-by-stone, we build monuments to our gods, a cosmic
geometry held within our sacred architecture of worship. These hidden
patterns can be found in the mysterious, towering pyramids found across
the globe and throughout an astounding diversity of cultures, in the
marble sanctuaries built to house the Greek and Roman goddesses, and in
the windblown mountain monasteries of ancient Asia and the indigenous
cliff-dwellings of the American Southwest.
Nature, art, beauty, these are the common elements found both within
the places made sacred by our ancestors and in the multitude of
environments where we strive to connect to source, and to
ourselves. Tracing a hallowed route from rugged stone temples to
transcendent works of modern architecture, the fifth volume in The
Library of Esoterica celebrates the collective history of spaces made
sacrosanct through human worship.
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