I found it very interesting that the first chapter of
Landscapes of the Sacred begins with the sentence, “Above all else, sacred
place is ‘storied place.’” This statement and the following sentences often
suggest that our ancestors chose the sacred places for their own reasons.
However, one of the axioms of a sacred place states that a sacred place is not
chosen, it chooses itself. Furthermore, there aren’t always any records of
these ancestors that are going around picking out sacred places. And each of
these holy places is often surrounded by unprovable tails of saints and
miracles. I think the stories only further prove that sacred places just sort
of come about on their own, which is why I find the fact that there are so many
stories and such so interesting. Who made these up to begin with? Where did the
legends start? Depending on the age of the sacred site and how good the records
of the place are, we might never know how these places came about.
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