spiralthicket
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Post by spiralthicket on Jul 23, 2015 9:55:37 GMT -6
Thicket, I am in love with that arch. Has anyone made specific pilgrimages to any sacred spaces, and did they feel different from the spaces you create? Thank you very much! I was in love when I first found it too. It was at then end of a very long trek through a pine forest and old farmland. the pine forest was like a great hall because it used to be a back road? long long grown over and sort of dead? at the end where the old forest met the new is where I found that arch. But yes! I have made a trek to a couple sacred places. The one that was most memorable was at a sabbat. in which we had to walk quite far to this huge pine spiral. we had to walk one by one through the spiral in silence, and in the center was a great fire. it was amazing, and the whole night was full of amazing experiences, and the feeling was so strong it was like nothing I've ever experienced. |
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aondeug
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Post by aondeug on Jul 25, 2015 15:11:57 GMT -6
I am not entirely sure how I would define sacred space. I suppose there are different types of it in my opinion. You have the stuff that you find. These things I am not sure why they are sacred save in the cases where spirits and gods live in them. Rivers are frequently sacred spaces I think, and they're things that need to be respected. Things like trees can be sacred spaces too. Though I am undecided if that is because there is a spirit who lives in the tree, or near it. Or if the spirit is the tree. Or if the tree itself is just kind of special?
Then there is the stuff you make. Buildings for example with blessed stones or where things are regularly purified in some fashion. Shrines and altars are definitely sacred, though the methods for making those areas sacred depend on what exactly your traditions and methods are. Though dousing or sprinkling things with water or burning incense or certain plants over the area seem to be very common.
And then you have sacred spaces you make to house spirits. Like there are spirits of the land and such and when you build structures you need to make these spirits a little space. Like a house basically. And you put things in their little house regularly as offerings so they won't get pissed off at you for stealing their land and being a horrible neighbor.
I read an essay once about Fionn meeting a man in a tree too, on the subject of making space. Basically person interpreting the story presented the idea that while the tree he was in was not a bile just naturally he made it a sacred tree by bringing bits and pieces of the other two realms into that realm of sky. Namely a bit of salmon for sea and a fruit for earth I think it was in the story? While I'm not sure just how "valid" said essay is the idea does intrigue me.
As for sacred spaces that are intangible...I definitely believe those exist and they are populated by the heavenly devas who are so high up that they have no form. Things like e-shrines I think would count as a sort of "sacred space" too, as someone mentioned. Really the internet and things like AI intrigue me a lot in regards to how they would fit into cosmology, so to speak. Like if we created an AI that is at least as sophisticated as an ant or some other small thing then technically we would have created life and a whole new realm of existence to be born into.
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