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=== The mythological landscape: === | === The mythological landscape: === | ||
- | The Saami had sacred sites like large rocks and rock-formations that bare a certain resemblance to humans, animals or birds. **These places would be left completely unaltered.** As Manker (1957:306) puts it: //' | + | The Saami had sacred sites like large rocks and rock-formations that bare a certain resemblance to humans, animals or birds. **These places would be left completely unaltered.** As Manker (1957:306) puts it: //' |
==== More broadly for Europe from Scandinavia to Spain: ==== | ==== More broadly for Europe from Scandinavia to Spain: ==== | ||
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=== Monuments as reenacment spaces: === | === Monuments as reenacment spaces: === | ||
- | In some cases monuments would be organized so participants in ceremonies would need to move around these spaces in a prescribed order, or as ways to experience the way the world was made or reenact creation myths. Spaces were created to form something like a model of the universe, through which a path was taken and specific offerings or ' | + | In some cases monuments would be organized so participants in ceremonies would need to move around these spaces in a prescribed order, or as ways to experience the way the world was made or **reenact creation myths**. Spaces were created to form something like a model of the universe, through which a path was taken and specific offerings or ' |