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 GroupingSites on Pohnpei, in the eastern Caroline Islands, attached to the island's chiefly order: the megalithic mortuary and ritual enclosures of the Saudeleur period and the title system that succeeded it. Much of the ground is clan-held, so custody runs through title-holders rather than one heritage authority. 2 Peoples and Traditions CoveredPohnpei is one island and one people, divided into five wehi - Madolenihmw, Uh, Kitti, Sokehs and Nett - each under its own Nahnmwarki and Nahnken. It is not a cover term for Micronesia or for the Caroline Islands generally. 3 Learn More
Pohnpeian Sacred Sites
This small group gathers a sacred site of Pohnpei in Micronesia, most notably the stone city of Nan Madol, built on artificial islets and long associated with the ruling dynasty and its rituals.
The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes what is known of its religious and ceremonial significance.
Ruin or archaeological site; the cult has ceased
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Belongs to Tradition
Source Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization in the Central PacificGlenn Petersen
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, 2nd edition
Patrick Vinton Kirch, University of California Press, 2017on Pohnpei and Nan Madol
3. Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization in the Central Pacific
Glenn Petersen, University of Hawai'i Press, 2009on Pohnpei's chiefdoms and title system
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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