Sublime

We build a temple to the gods by creating, clearing, and restoring each of the chambers of the chakras. Only when we have built a foundation and reclaimed our life force from the ground up are we truly able to handle the manifestations of divine consciousness.

that’s the way the temple felt to me, like a core sample from another time,

Before the tomb there was an altar for the sacrifices, as before the temples of the gods.19

Navajo National Monument. A small, fragile, hidden place containing two of the most beautiful cliff dwellings in the Southwest—Keet Seel and Betatakin.

Rather than constructing elaborate temples for the worship of their deities, they held the land itself to be sacred, and honored many local nature gods and goddesses at holy shrines near rivers, springs, lakes, groves of trees, and natural rock formations.

(The ruins of this huge city, now known as Huánuco Pampa, lie above La Unión, a remote town on the upper Marañón. They contain superb stonework, and are unique in being the only ruins of an important Inca provincial centre to remain untouched by later occupation. The Spaniards soon found its altitude of 12,170 feet (3,700 metres) too disagreeable

the Museu da Escrita do Sudoeste, Almodôvar (the Museum of South-western Inscriptions, Almodôvar).