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Sacred Places, Space and Cosmology in the Context of Religious Archaeology: The Maya Cosmogram and Western European Geomancy

ADAMEC, E.

Originální název

Sacred Places, Space and Cosmology in the Context of Religious Archaeology: The Maya Cosmogram and Western European Geomancy

Typ

přednáška

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Mountains, caves, and water as features that orient and actively organize the Maya world. For the Maya, however, as for different peoples, structure and engineering have often mimicked and accentuated however seldom, if ever, changed the typically Maya herbal world. The Mayan underworld is characterized by its watery nature, which is also a physical feature of limestone caves. The way they used landscape to do this is a nearly universal strategy, even though it remains a Maya specific form. Animism can also be viewed not as a religion but as a collection of worldviews. The personification of land deities is part of the overall strategy of domestication, integrating land and spiritual forces into human communities. Western European megalithic monuments, such as shrines across the country, may invoke the potency of ancestral ancestors, or the spirits or deities with which they are associated.

Klíčová slova

Megaliths; Mayan Cosmogram; EUropean Geomancy; Animism;

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ADAMEC, E.

BibTex

@misc{BUT180181,
  author="Emil {Adamec}",
  title="Sacred Places, Space and Cosmology in the Context of Religious Archaeology: The Maya Cosmogram and Western European Geomancy",
  note="lecture"
}