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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What Defines This GroupingSites of the worship of the Goddess, above all the shakta pithas, places sanctified in myth by the fall of a part of the Goddess's body. The number of pithas is not fixed: the lists give four, eighteen, fifty-one or one hundred and eight, and the same place is claimed by more than one list, so no closed set can honestly be stated. 2 Learn More
Hindu Shakta sacred sites
This small group gathers a sacred site of the Shakta tradition of Hinduism, the worship of the Goddess (Devi, Shakti), whose great pilgrimage centres include the shakta pithas, places sanctified in myth by the fall of the Goddess's body.
The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes its association with the Goddess and its place in Shakta pilgrimage.
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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