sacred trees
sacred camphor tree nara 5
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or ‘wholly other.’ – Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
Other Images in this Gallery
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- My daughters “understanding” a sacred camphor tree at the Kasuga Shrine
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- The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or ‘wholly other.’ – Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries