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<\/p>\nThis week we discussed the critical importance that origin myths and material objects have in the composition, sustenance, and interpretation of sacred spaces.\u00a0 How does an act of divination encompass the space around it and makes it sacred?\u00a0 How does an object, like a tray, become more than a mere marginal ornament or a prop in the constitution of such sacred space?\u00a0 How does a person go from holding an object, or even merely looking at it, to engaging a whole cosmology?\u00a0 How can such an action and the event it generates lead them to experience the Homeland, even if they are not there?\u00a0 How do objects get woven with poetics, mimesis, and\/or devotion to lead to the experience of the sacred and the constitution of a sacred space or place?\u00a0 How does the Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 religion depend on objects like this for branding a space sacred, for everyone to see and grasp the hierophantic?\u00a0 What other objects can you think of in your own experience of the sacred that are equivalent in this matter?<\/p>\n
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Write a reflection in which you consider these questions and answer some of them. \u00a0The post is due on Sunday October 27 at midnight<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week we discussed the critical importance that origin myths and material objects have in the composition, sustenance, and interpretation of sacred spaces.\u00a0 How does an act of divination encompass the space around it and makes it sacred?\u00a0 How does an object, like a tray, become more than a mere marginal ornament or a prop … <\/p>\n