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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Status TodayLiving. The ceremonial cycle is current and the places named in it are in use. Hopi ceremonial knowledge is held by particular clans and societies and is restricted by them. A great deal was recorded and published by outsiders around 1900 without permission, and the Hopi position is that being in print is not a release. 2 Overview
What Defines This GroupingPlaces across northern Arizona and the wider Colorado Plateau tied to particular clans' migration histories and to the ceremonial calendar. Many lie far outside the present reservation and are ancestral villages and shrines rather than places of residence. 2 Learn More
Hopi sacred sites
This small group gathers a sacred site of the Hopi people of the American Southwest, a place bound to their ceremonial life and their emergence and migration traditions. 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 Hopi tradition.
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Belongs to Tradition
Source Rethinking Hopi EthnographyPeter M. Whiteley
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Rethinking Hopi Ethnography
Peter M. Whiteley, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998on clan histories and Hopi landView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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