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    Quechua language when at sunset the sun sinks behind the shrine. Machu Picchu was abandoned just over 100 years later in the 1500s‚ as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest. The Spaniards never found Machu Picchu even thought they suspected its existence. The Intihuatana stone and its resident spirits remain on their original position. Intihuatana stones were the supremely scared objects of the Inca people and were broken at an Inca shrine. Legend tells that when a sensitive person touches their

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    Lakshmana Vs Pantheon

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    Pantheon expresses a deeper meaning of their religion. The pantheons form itself expresses the worships of the gods and puts lights on each gods representing the heavens‚ while the Lakshmana has levels that represent the mountain range as well as a shrine. Each step and direction represents a spiritual sense as well as. Both of the structures hold an important symbolic function in their captivating expression of beliefs. The Lakshmana is built in India around 930 CE. It’s a sandstone built‚ contains

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    The visitors experience the Holy Land in its entirety as they‚ “see‚ touch‚ and smell the antiquity of the shrine’s veneration‚" (Wharton‚ p.192). Another way to distinguish between the theme park and the holy shrine is comparing the use of the Anointing Stone. In the Holy Sepulchre pilgrims pour oil over it and then wipe it off with these white cloths and that oil is kept in flasks. The whole idea here is the contact with something holy which is not a possibility

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    modern Indian poet ‚ Arun Kolatkar comments on contemporary society through this poem. The poem is simple in language and theme. The poet uses a very simple common image-a beggar‚ in this case‚ an old woman‚ who is found begging outside the horseshoe shrine . In India this is a common sight as common as our reaction to a beggar besieging us pleading for alms. This sight is particularly common around holy places and pilgrim spots.hey can be extremely persistent driving one to the point of irritation if

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    sacrifices as well as gain other human sacrifices. Like the Chinese‚ the people of Mesoamerica and South America also believed in human sacrifices. They helped it become a religious shrine. Temples included a pantheon of gods preserved in paintings. Symbolism was also very important. Chinese cities were also religious shrines. Both cultures had a designated person that linked them to the spiritual world. In Mesoamerica and South America this person was known as a shaman. In China‚ kings took on this

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    Los Muertos and Thanksgiving in November. December we celebrate El Dia de la Virgen‚ Christmas. In January we celebrate new years and the three kings. They way we celebrate El Día de Los Muertos is by making a shrine to all the loved ones that passed away. We put food for the shrine and we pray for them. This tradition is a religious in a way because we pray for the people that passes away. Another thing that we celebrate in November is Thanksgiving. In Thanksgiving we spend time with family and

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    Nine Muses at the UP Faculty Center (1994); Sunburst at the Peninsula Manila Hotel (1994); the bronze figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw in front of National Library; Murals in Marble at the National Heroes Shrine‚ Mt. Samat‚ Bataan; 14 Stations of the Cross at the EDSA Shrine; Sandugo or Blood Compact shrine in Tagbilaran‚ Bohol. He also performed the death mask procedures to the late Cardinal Sin and Fernando Poe Jr. Anastacio Tanchauco Caedo (14 August 1907–12 May 1990) was a Filipino sculptor. His

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    inconsistencies‚ and how culture affects these‚ is visible in the Shango Shrine Figure‚ Athena Parthenos‚ and Venus of Willendorf. In the Shango shrine figure created by Abogunde of Ede of the Yoruba culture‚ the female subject is used to represent a variety of cultural beliefs. The choice to use a female figure is important because of the inherent themes it represents; fertility and culturally portrayed status. The Shango Shrine Figure is a female figure adorned by two other adolescents. All three

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    The research article about the Nacirema culture focused on a heavily religious society. In which the indualives shape their whole lives around it. Most people in the culture have at least one shrine dedicated to their physical health. It’s custom for all of the household members to pray to the shrine at least once a day. Praying is a secluded activity in the Nacirema culture and it is believed to reinforce the individual’s relationship with the divine. There is a major emphasis on the mouth and how

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    interludes in the life of Rizal was his sojourn in the Land of the Cherry Blossoms for one month and a half(February 28 – April 13‚ 1888). He was enchanted by the natural beauty of Japan‚ the charming manners of the Japanese‚ and the picturesque shrines. Moreover‚ he fall in love with a Japanese girl‚ whose loveliness infused joy and romance in his sorrowing heart. Her real name was Seiko Usui. Rizal affectionately called her O-Sei-San. He had to sacrifice his own happiness to carry on his work for

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