This page groups sacred sites by whether their sacred status is still actively maintained. Wikipedia notes that Mircea Eliade "argues that while the concept of a sacred space is often associated with religious traditions, it is not exclusive to them," since secular societies can keep treating a place as significant too. Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a site with living religious observance apart from one preserved mainly for its history.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingPlaces within Dinetah, the homeland bounded by four sacred mountains. Their standing comes from the ceremonial narratives and the chantways that name them, and most carry nothing built and nothing an outsider would see. 2 Status
Status TodayLiving. The places are in current ceremonial use, and the knowledge attached to them is held by particular practitioners who decide what is said about it. 2 Learn More
Dine (Navajo) Sacred Sites
This small group holds a sacred site of the Dine (Navajo) people, a place within the sacred geography bounded by the four sacred mountains that define the Navajo homeland and figure in their ceremonies and origin narratives. These are sites of a living culture.
The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes its significance with respect for the living Dine tradition.
In active religious use
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Belongs to Tradition
Sites grouped for the Dine tradition.
Source Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and PersonhoodMaureen Trudelle Schwarz
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Navajo Sacred Places
Klara Bonsack Kelley and Harris Francis, Indiana University Press, 1994on the character of Navajo sacred placesView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood
Maureen Trudelle Schwarz, University of Arizona Press, 1997
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