Sentences with phrase «sacred sites which»

Camelback Mountain and the Phoenix Mountains contained Native American sacred sites which had been visited for centuries.

In both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaning.

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Of course, this immediately refers to sites and buildings which contain and make concrete the sacred or the holy.

This arose in the silversmith guild, which made silver replicas of the statue of Diana in the temple to be sold to visitors to that sacred site from all over the Hellenistic world.

Horeb, the mountain of God (according to E and the Deuteronomic editors), is the same as Sinai, the sacred mountain (J and P), which was the site of Israel's first formal act of Covenant organization.

He searched in that direction for some irregular line on the distant horizon, an old ruin or sacred site to which the ancient arrow might have pointed.

Muslims own many of the small businesses in Sri Lanka, a fact that many believe has helped make them targets as Buddhist - Muslim relations have worsened in recent years amid the rise of hard - line Buddhist groups, which accuse Muslims of forcing people to convert and destroying sacred Buddhist sites.

Unfortunately there was a radical break in the history of Jerusalem in the second century, which to some degree interrupted the local tradition of the sacred sites.

Simek said the scale of the rendering is most impressive, noting the Cumberland Plateau was a sacred setting, spanning hundreds of miles, in which individual sites were only parts of a greater conceptual whole.

The Web site notes that Muslim clergy invoked the concept of mundras — in which a cemetery is no longer considered sacred — in the 1920s when a Muslim university campus was planned at the site.

In 1947, Britain pulled out of Palestine, leaving it in the hands of the United Nations, which went ahead with the partition that had been proposed by the British - two independent states with Jerusalem internationalized as a neutral «sacred - site».

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.

Japan • The sacred island of Okinoshima, which includes archaeological sites that provide a chronological record of the evolution of rituals performed there from the fourth to the ninth centuries.

The beauty of Wailua Bay is surely why the ancient Hawaiians chose it as the site for a heiau (sacred place) the remains of which are still visible at the end of the beach access path, considered sacred and included on the Historic Register.

We begin at the Aboriginal Cultural Centre with a guided tour around this sacred site, which holds great spiritual significance to local Anangu people.

The inscribed area consists of 25 sites which, according to the UN, «reflect the essence of Fujisan's sacred landscape».

Most of the temples will hire out these items of clothing which can be worn during your time at the sacred sites.

To visit Machu Picchu, you can head out for day trips aboard the Vistadome train, which departs from Poroy station (15 minutes from Cusco) arriving at Aguas Calientes just at the foot of the sacred site.

The geology of Belize has created thousands of caves, many of which were used as sacred ceremonial sites by the ancient Maya that once ruled the country in the long centuries before the arrival of Europeans.

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.

For this exhibition, Giorno's personal shrine from his home, which is decorated with intricate brocade from the sacred pilgrimage site of Benaras in India, has been relocated to the gallery space.

Layers of meaning in the land itself — its sacred sites and contested zones — are embedded in the landscape photography of Wim Wenders, Sharon Ya'ari, and Ori Gersht, each exploring the ways in which human intervention has altered the terrain.

The sacred site at Pípsell is also impacted by the Ajax Mine Project, which SSN has rejected under its Indigenous laws.

In Aboriginal sacred sites litigation, this second criterion should be interpreted in accordance with Indigenous worldviews, which situate sacred sites as part and parcel of spiritual practice, belief and indeed identity.