3/21 Notes- Rocks and Lakes

axis mundi- central location

Lake:
    *healing
    *womb (feminine)
    *unconscious

Rocks:
    *King Arthur


sacred SITE
sacred SIGHT

Mountains:
-easy to see a magical quality
-sacred central
-heaven/earth (axis mundi!)

Omphalos (naval)
    *navel gazing
    *we say "ommmm"- desire to return back to center (womb)

Sacred cities
      -Jerusalem
      -Babylon

Vine Deloria- sacred spaces

HUMAN---->>---Gettysberg----->>>-----holy occurence (Jordan River)------>>>------Divine reveals self w/out anything (burning bush)---------->>>------------DIVINE (new revelation, hasn't happened yet)

*Scotland
*Custer

Why do we make places sacred where people all died?
The older it is, the more sacred?

Bethel- house of God
 (el=god)

axis mundi: present, real, constant

theothany- god/gods reveal themselves
         *Jesus appears w/ Elijah
         *transfiguration

Personal spaces vs geographical

Agdistis- kid born from sperm on rock
     *hermaphrodite