Sentences with phrase «sacred site where»

This was once an important sacred site where a variety of gods were honored.

We began by hiking a little way up the Inca trail (away from our ultimate destination) to a sacred site where we performed a beautiful ceremony to connect us with nature, set our collective intentions for our journey together, and celebrate the powerful mountain energy which surrounded us.

The second situation is the position of Justice Merkel, the minority judge in the Croker Island case: non-exclusive rights of access combined with the possibility of exclusive rights to a fishery and exclusive rights to sacred sites where it does not unreasonably interfere with other navigation rights.

Not exact matches

Native Americans march to a burial ground sacred site that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), near the encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the oil pipeline that is slated to cross the Missouri River nearby, Sept. 4, 2016 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

By giving bin Laden's body a burial in the Arabian Sea, they prevented his followers from turning any specific site into a sacred place where they could visit his body and dedicate their own bodies to his cause.

It seems that this was a holy site for a pagan religion — a sacred grove — where the victorious conclusion of major battles was marked by the ritual presentation and destruction of the bones of the vanquished warriors,» adds Mads Kähler Holst.

Girls in pinafores and straw hats are preparing for an outing to Hanging Rock, where giant obelisks of red stone jut out of the earth and create a labyrinth of craggy interstices — a geological marvel and a sacred site for Aboriginal Australians.

When I watch people go to sacred sites just to snap 1,000 selfies and leave, not even taking a single moment to breathe in the air, process where they are, and look at the place through the lens of their own eyes... it's too much.

A slight detour takes you to the ancient petroglyph site, where mysterious carvings surround a freshwater pool at the base of a waterfall — archaeologists believe them to be sacred symbols carved by Taino Indians over 1,000 years ago.

Pirkarli refers to a sacred flat rock, and Yannima is a site near where the artist was born.

Our licensed captain transports you around the sacred island of Nusa Penida, or the southern coastal waters of Bali where you can view spectacular sites.

We can also arrange a four wheel drive tour where you will have the opportunity to enjoy mountain scenery and perhaps, visit a sacred aboriginal site.

Only 200 meters above sea level begin an incredible adventure in the National Park of the Candelaria Caves National Park, one of the ways of Xibalba, here lies a mystical cave system are a sacred pilgrimage site for the descendants of the Maya, thought to be the entrance to the ham - pa where souls rest.

As you peer into the sacred cenote, your guide explains how archeologists delved into this pilgrimage site and pulled out wood, shells, cloth, jewelry and the skeletons of men and children, confirming that the natural sinkhole indeed was once used as a human sacrifice site.Stand on one of the platforms at the colossal ball court where Mayans played sports, and have another person from your group whisper from 150 feet (46 meters) away.

Tracing their travels to Mecca, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Senegal, the photos seek to uncover and engage with the particular and unstable memories of each location — the birthplace of Islam in Mecca, inaccessible to most non-believers, and now paved over with parking lots and luxury hotel chains; the sacred sites of Jerusalem, fought over, destroyed and restored time and again for centuries; the ostensibly liberal cities of Western Europe, where paranoia, surveillance and religious profiling are becoming the new normal; and Dakar, where the legacies of slavery and colonialism gave rise to unique Islamic identities and practices, which are increasingly under assault by globalizing forces.

Back in Manhattan, I relaxed in the plush screening room hidden within the Bumble and Bumble hair salon, where Rainer Judd was unspooling a sweet short about her father's transformation of Marfa, Texas, from a cattle town to a sacred art site.

Moreover, given the severe and permanent nature of the harm that accrues from the destruction of sacred sites, it will be difficult for the government to justify such an infringement in the absence of an urgent, overriding public purpose (eg the construction of a fire break to prevent the imminent spread of a forest fire, where there is no possible alternate location).

If Indigenous people are unable to be compensated for the loss of rights and interests they have in land, under their traditional laws and customs, in the shadows of Uluru, the most iconic of Aboriginal sacred sites, where will they be compensated?