Some science behind the scenes
Sacred geography - altars
The altars in churches in both the UK and other countries were often reused altars from the original pre-Christian site. Those who built Churches tended to build them over the sacred places of the people who lived there, and the altar was left in place as a sort of X marks the spot, in an odd combination of spiritual and religious. Kneel or lie on an altar and you could be at a fairly potent spot spiritually.
As with all sacred geography physical altars have a symbolic equivalent with its own meaning.
What is perhaps the most intriguing about the reuse of the altars in Christianity, is the use to which the altar had been put in olden days.
Altars were a major part of the Mystery religions and all Mystery religions are based on sexual stimulation methods, the release of sexual energy in order to provoke a kundalini experience and thereby create a 'god'. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Colin Wilson - Mysteries
Professor Geoffrey Webb was Secretary of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. After the Second world War Webb was assigned the task of surveying ruined churches with a view to restoration. Looking inside an altar whose top slab had been removed by a bomb blast, he found a male sexual organ carved in stone. This led him to look in other altars. Webb concluded that similar phalluses could be found inside the altars of ninety per cent of churches built up to the time of the Black Death (1348).
Observations
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- Brittany - Carnac and its symbolism
- Celestial music by the River Tweed – choirs, concerts and bands
- Celtic - Diodorus Sicilus and Pindar - Stonehenge
- Chichen Itza - Mayan - Pyramid
- County Meath - Tara - Lia Fáil
- Crete – The Cave of Smnisos
- Delos - 03 The sacred geographical features
- Eridu
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Temple of Coricancha, Cuzco
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Titicaca Temple of Sun and Moon 1
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Titicaca Temple of the Sun and Moon 2
- Gaudi - Professional work - 04 The Sagrada Família
- Gaudi - Professional work - 11 The Artigas Gardens
- Glastonbury
- Glastonbury Tor
- Incas - Macchu Picchu
- Incas - Macchu Picchu - 'Funerary rock'
- Incas - Macchu Picchu - 'Hitching post to the Sun'
- Indus valley - Dholavira - 03 Sacred geometry layout
- Indus valley - Dholavira - 04 Water and the step wells
- Indus valley - Mohenjo-Daro - 03 The Citadel
- John Michell - The View over Atlantic – The sacred geography of China
- Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea – The Tea Room
- Karnataka and South India - 03 Airavatesvara Temple
- Karnataka and South India - 04 Bhoga Nandeeshwara and Arunachaleswara Temples
- Karnataka and South India - 05 Brihadeeswarar Temple, Thanjavur
- Karnataka and South India - 06 Ekambareswarar Temple
- Karnataka and South India - 07 Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple
- Knights Templar - Temple Bruer Preceptory
- Lagash
- Lagash - Sacred geography
- Lame Deer - Native American Indians - Medicine Deer Rock
- Larsa - And the Great Hymn to Shamash
- Malta - 02 The Temples
- Malta - 02 The Temples detail
- Malta - 03 The 'cart tracks'
- Malta - 06 Tarxien Temples
- Malta - 07 The Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni
- Malta - 08 Mnajdra Temple
- Malta - 09 Xagħra Stone Circle
- Malta - 10 Ħaġar Qim
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 09 Creating a sacred geography
- Norse - Borum Eshoj
- Norse - Faro
- Norse - Gamla Uppsala - Adam of Bremen
- Norse - Gamla Uppsala - The Three Great Mounds
- Norse - Gamla Uppsala - The Ynglinga and Njals saga
- Norse - Gutasaga
- Norse - Helgo
- Norse - Jelling
- Norse - Jelling - The North and South Mound
- Palenque - Mayan - Overview
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 01 The Mountain
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 02 Surroundings and cosmic egg
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 05 Stairs and ladders
- Sacred geography - Ancient Egyptian - Abu Simbel
- Sacred geography - Ancient Egyptian - Temples with pronaos
- Sacred geography - Korean mystic shamanism – Sacred grove
- Sacred geography – Picts
- Sacred geography – Picts – Brochs 02
- Sacred geography – Picts – Mark stones
- Sacred geography – Picts – Wheelhouses 05 - A’ Cheardach Bheag South Uist
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – 01 Reconstruction of an Initiation ceremony
- Susa
- Susa - The meeting place for mystic systems
- Symbols – Picts – Sacred site - Concentric circles [Complex site]
- Taq Bostan 01
- Tepe Kangavar
- Tepe Tureng
- The Ancestors - Avebury World Heritage site - Avebury henge
- The Ancestors - Avebury World Heritage site - The Sanctuary
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - A Dowsing survey by Norman Fahy
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Cairn
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Henge
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Ritual Pit
- The Ancestors - Grime's Graves
- The Ancestors - Neolithic Orkney - Maes Howe
- The Ancestors - Neolithic Orkney - The Ring of Brodgar
- The Ancestors - Neolithic Orkney - The Standing Stones of Stenness
- The Ancestors - Somerset - Cadbury Castle
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 01 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 02 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 03 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Rev. Archer Sheper, vicar of Avenbury (Herefordshire County) - the church that emits organ music without an organist
- Tikal - Mayan - Pyramid
- Tree, Isabella - Sliced Iguana – 04 The ceremony
- Uruk
- Uruk - The Anu ziggurat
- Uruk – The Anu district of Kulaba
- Uruk – The Eanna district of Uruk
- Uruk – The Stone cone and Limestone temples
- Vatican
- Vatican - St Peters Basilica
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Mithras Mysteries
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Pyramids as the site of the Mysteries
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The symbolism of coins
- Zoroastrian - Means of achieving spiritual experience - 12 Creating a sacred geography