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Inspirations
Most of the posts in this section are part of a series. In the following bullet list, the links are to the first post in the series:
- This Week in Nature: The basic four elements of nature
- Defensive Structures: Fortresses and the like
- European City Breaks: 32 cities
- Religious Buildings: Religions all over the world
- Iron Wheels: Trains and other vehicles on rails
There are also stand-alone articles with abstracts from Sandalsand’s travels. The page called “Travelling” contains related material.
This Week in Nature: Introduction
This is the first article in a series about inspiring natural phenomena. Human elements, such as cultural landscapes, will be largely exempted but...
Defensive structures (3) The protection of civilians
Some of the world's defensive structures have only minor military objectives. They protect the civilian population not from military attacks, but...
Defensive Structures (2) The smaller ones
Some defensive structures are basically walled military compounds on a limited area, like fortresses. Others include entire towns. The...
Defensive Structures (1) The huge ones
There are some historically significant and physically huge military structures around the world. They have been built to protect entire countries...
Religious Buildings (12) After death – Special memorials, with no identified dead persons
Military and political authorities have had a need to create what is usually known as a "Tomb of the unknown soldier". There is no...
Religious Buildings (11) After death – Taking care of human remains
Mummification is a rite known mostly from Egypt, in the times of the Pharaos. They used to be kept inside the pyramids or in the tombs of the Valley...
Religious Buildings (10) After death – Burial sites as World Heritage Sites
Rich people, like kings, emperors and nobles have for thousands of years been concerned about their heritage. Some of them have in modern times and...
Religious Buildings (9) After death – Cemeteries as final resting places
All religions and cultures have rites in dealing with death and human remains. This article explores not the rites but sites related to the last...
Religious Buildings (8) Houses for the deity or its premier representative on Earth
This chapter in the series about religious buildings is a rather peculiar one. To be true, in many religions the deities do not need a house or...
Religious Buildings (7) Monasteries and educational institutions
In most religions some members have always been more special than others. On the span between priests and lay members of the religion, we encounter...
Religious Buildings (6) Places of worship for extinct religions
There is a host of other contemporary religions than I have been presenting in the last four blog entries, and there are many extinct religions as...
Religious Buildings (5) Other contemporary places of worship
This chapter finishes the presentation of contemporary religions with a look at Shinto, Tao, Hindu and Jewish places of worship. Shintoism...
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. (Italo Calvino)