09-01-2024, 08:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2024, 09:10 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Your point?
I don’t think my comment was clear. I know what shrines are. I asked whether it was known, if there’s evidence they were built intentionally as part of a greater adze mining complex, or because the existing mining road made religious pilgrimages and shrines possible, by the priests? Probably not possible to know as there is no written record by the shrine builders saying “we came here with the intention…”
when someone provides an interpretation of how the site was used, who has decades of experience and the access and motivation to review tons of related academic research
The older you get the greater the number of archeological interpretations you’ll discover that change over the years. Nothing is carved in stone. Except maybe adze.
Yes I speak a second language, in addition I took a year of Sanskrit in college but couldn’t speak it if I ran into the Buddha. Fortunately his followers wrote down some of what he said.
My sister is a Republican. I understand all too well how you can interpret every single issue even in the present day from both sides. Let me assure you, even with video, audio, and direct quotes any occurrence can be explained from a person’s preferred point of view. I understand that. I also understand from 500-1000 years away it’s almost impossible to know with 100% certainty which interpretation is correct. Unless there is a first person written source. Even then, maybe not 100%.
The devil’s advocate, the contrary in Little Big Man have their place in society creating a change of perspective. But sometimes if it’s all devil all the time it can seem like just some guy riding on a horse backwards, going nowhere.
I don’t think my comment was clear. I know what shrines are. I asked whether it was known, if there’s evidence they were built intentionally as part of a greater adze mining complex, or because the existing mining road made religious pilgrimages and shrines possible, by the priests? Probably not possible to know as there is no written record by the shrine builders saying “we came here with the intention…”
when someone provides an interpretation of how the site was used, who has decades of experience and the access and motivation to review tons of related academic research
The older you get the greater the number of archeological interpretations you’ll discover that change over the years. Nothing is carved in stone. Except maybe adze.
Yes I speak a second language, in addition I took a year of Sanskrit in college but couldn’t speak it if I ran into the Buddha. Fortunately his followers wrote down some of what he said.
My sister is a Republican. I understand all too well how you can interpret every single issue even in the present day from both sides. Let me assure you, even with video, audio, and direct quotes any occurrence can be explained from a person’s preferred point of view. I understand that. I also understand from 500-1000 years away it’s almost impossible to know with 100% certainty which interpretation is correct. Unless there is a first person written source. Even then, maybe not 100%.
The devil’s advocate, the contrary in Little Big Man have their place in society creating a change of perspective. But sometimes if it’s all devil all the time it can seem like just some guy riding on a horse backwards, going nowhere.