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tjj wrote:
In his talk the speaker looked at some of the places we consider sacred - mountain tops, caves, groves, sources of water and came to the possibility that sacred can sometimes equate with terrifying. He also mentioned altitude sickness which causes some mountaineers to experience visions. The book looks like a good read.
Future pagans leaving clouties at the The "Sarrie Heid " and Spaghetti Junction ?
Altitude sickness in the UK ? You'd have to stick the two biggest hills on top of each other , maybe hypothermia , mmmm you can get that at the Sarrie Heid and Spaghetti Junction too .

I don't think Bob Trubshaw was talking about mountains in Britain - perhaps Tibet, he didn't actually say and talked quite fast.

The book "Sacred Places - Prehistory and Popular Imagination" looks worth reading though - nothing too controversal, chapters titled 'The mythology of places' and 'Experiencing places.' I obviously haven't had time to read it yet but imagine it may be looking at how we superimpose our own values on 'sacred' sites.

Am currently reading a novel by Charles Frazier called 'Thirteen Moons' and came across these lines ...The spring rose up from its deep source and smelled of wet earth and stones at the centre of the world. Whatever you believe and whatever god you pray to, a place where clean water rises from the earth is someway sacred.

I guess we just know when ...