The ancient holy places and tourists

The ancient holy places and tourists

The problems with ancient holy places and tourism are that even if tourists bring money for local people, that thing would increase the erosion, and also tourists are disturbing archeological research in those places. Unlike Uluru in Australia what is closed from tourists is a well-known monument, places like Ukonsaari-Island in Finland are not very well researched, and even those places are known as the holy places of the ancient religions, there is not made much scientific research in that kind of places.

But also the cultural and religious reasons are causing that those places wanted to rest in peace. They are telling us the places and times, which was a long time ago. And maybe they have a great mean for some people, who are living today.

The thing is that the archeologists are looking at the bones and other things, what are left behind those rituals, they want to find out, what kind of rituals are done in those places. The type of sacrificed animals is defined by using DNA, and that means that those places must keep clean. Sometimes holy places were used for the discussions between the eldest persons of the community, and if the person who broke against other villages or villains was convicted the other villain must accept that.

And if the person made homicide, the punishment was death but were those executions done in the holy islands is the thing, what is very interesting. Also, the great witches and shamans allowed to die in that kind of place, because that made possible to control that the secrets of shamans would not go to the ears of wrong people.

In the communities of Vikings were quite common, and they made those sacrifices four times per year. And if the community was under threat those sacrifices were made more often. So did Vikings use the same places with Sami for their rituals?

One of the most interesting things is that were those places used also for human sacrifices, and how those sacrificed persons were selected, and the same way interesting thing would be that the holy place was reserved for certain highly respected groups? By using chemical analysis the food, what those people have eaten, and if a certain type of remaining of amino acid or hallucinogens will be found, that would tell the person was a shaman or highly respected chief. And if some places were reserved for the highest respected shamans, the DNA would allow tracking the families of those people.

If there can be found human remains that would help to track the people, who were in the high position and served as shamans. What they have done because they met that fate? in some cultures, the persons, who have made homicides were used in that kind of rituals, and there is one very interesting point in those rituals. That means that the girl must get baby before the punishment would be done, and then that baby was taken to society.

But when we are looking at the holy places, we must ask, how those places became holy? The thing is Uluru was the place, where "giant Eagle" gets the body, and maybe Ukonsaari-Island is chosen for the same reasons. Ravens would find the body, what was left on that island was destroyed by Ravens, and the Ravens have a special place in the Northern mythology.

The highest god of Vikings, Odin had two ravens Hugin and Mudin (Think and Memory), the thing is that the religion of Sami was quite similar to the religion of Vikings, and that means that Ravens were representers of the highest god. But was the "Ukko" what was the highest God of Sami one version of Odin. Both characters were gods of thunder. And if we are thinking the form of Ukonsaari-Island, the flashes of lightning strikes quite often in that place.

Writing about national parks and their connection with ancient pagan religions.

Writing about national parks and their connection with ancient pagan religions.

When we are thinking about the holy places of ancient pagans, we might ask, how they choose those places? What was so special in those places, and who selected them? Sometimes I have thought that maybe those ancient ritual places are somehow visible in our maps as the national parks because those places might be thought of as cursed.

National parks are usually really nice places to spend time, and some of them are near city centers. The thing is that many national parks or forests have a history as the area, where there are not many houses, and that's why those beautiful places have been protected, and people can come from the city centers for enjoying those places. But why those places have not built?

That is one very good question, and the answer could be that there are some bad stories of myths about some places. When we are thinking about the case, that some places have been so-called cursed, what that thing exactly mean? It means the "no go" zone, or area, where is not allowed to go.

Some of those stories are told for protecting people against the volcanoes, but the origin of some stories has ever found out. So if we want to track the origin of those stories, we must find out when the markings of those stories are begun, and the thing that there are no markings would also tell something about the birth of the tales.

And when we are thinking about the national or commuter memory the stories and myths are causing the bloodline of some cases, what might happen a long time ago, in the early ages of Christianity. When we are looking at the origin of those myths, people might act in some areas to their children, that they should not go to some areas, and then they created stories about some kind of monsters and wolves, which might be dangerous in real life.

But the purpose of those stories has been keeping wrong people away from the forests, where pagans made their rituals and what was holy to them. The stories are forgotten but it's possible that people still react negatively, when they are facing things, that somebody wants to go to some areas. If the fear is put in the mind of people at a very young age, they would transfer it to the next generations, because that kind of things causes reflex, that the prohibiting of things is very rough.

And that causes fear, which will transfer to children over the generations. But what might be the secret in the forest, what causes that kind of reaction, what is still visible in the maps? The thing is that the ancient pagans might think that some kind of place was holy to them, and they wanted to keep people out of those places.

When the new religion Christianity turns the ancient pagan religions away, there was a short period, when those religions were influenced by people at the same time. And in that situation, there were made contracts, which might not be wanted to show either to Vatican or local people.

The force or sword mission was possible when the military force was behind the priests and secular authorities turned to support the mission. As you might see, that Christianity was not always been the top religion in the world. And in the 1st to 14th century AD, the forming of the church has just begun. So at that time many books and writings are lost. And that means that part of those centuries are called as dark or "phantom time" because some noblemen destroyed their relationship with old religions.