This is the class blog for Dr. Redick's Wilderness as Sacred Landscape course, spring 2007. Each entry is to be preceded by the name of the writer and the subject.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Cloud Easton, inquiring thoughts on Navajo
In Lane's writing he talks of among the most difficult trials for a boy to learn in becoming a man is to "being seen and asked to discern and name every holy place which could be seen." This interests me in that I wonder just how many holy sights did the Navajo actually have? I understand the importance of holy and sacred places, especially within the context of religion, but then to have as many as it could be hard to name them all? I guess my confusion comes from the thought that if a group of people had so many places considered sacred then wouldn't each of such places lose some its importance as to the sheer number of them?
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