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th century book The Golden Bough : A Study in Comparative Religion . Magical rituals were the source of what would become secular art. Here we shall analyze this assertion in the context of the Hamatsa dance of the Kwakiutl people of Canada. Ritual Stripped of its Magical Value: Looking at the Hamatsa Dance English folklorist Jessie Weston, in fact, tried to show magical rituals could be the source of secular art in the case of the grail story in her book From Ritual to Romance , an early 20 th century work that influenced T.S. Eliot’s poem The Wasteland . A magical ritual would be created to bring about some natural goal beneficial to a community, but in the transition from the country to the town, magic would be largely abandoned. City-dwellers would have, nevertheless, remembered and taken these rituals with them to the city. No longer possessing magical value, the rituals now were found to contain meaning or the potential for entertainment ....
Waharoa and pou unveiled at Mātakitaki 18 Jan, 2021 10:04 PM 2 minutes to read The waharoa (entranceway) to Mātakitaki forms the shape of a rūrū (owl) as a guardian of the surrounding lands. Photo / Supplied Waikato News A sacred site in Pirongia has been recognised with the unveiling of a carved waharoa (entranceway), mānuka palisade fence and three carved pou (posts) to commemorate the people who lived and died there in 1822. The entranceway (waharoa) and posts (pou) were unveiled in December in the presence of King Tūheitia Paki, Cabinet Minister and Waikato MP Nanaia Mahuta, local iwi, representatives from Northland iwi, Waipā deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk and other dignitaries. ....
Ruins of the Temple of Valetudo. Glanum, fortified Roman town in Provence. ( emily m wilson / Adobe Stock) Although Glanum lost its independence, it prospered further under Roman rule. The construction of the Via Domitia , the first Roman road built in Gaul, benefitted not only the town, but the entire region as it connected Italy and Spain via Gallia Narbonensis (today the southern part of France). The new road brought numerous travellers to Glanum, by then a religious sanctuary built around the sacred spring. During the reign of Augustus, Glanum first became a colonia, and was then given the status of a city. Glanum became one of the leading centres of Roman civilisation to the west of the Alps. Unfortunately, the prosperity did not last forever. During the 3 ....