Landscapes of the sacred: 2nd axiom

Tyler Hoskinson

Lane's second axiom, sacred place is ordinary place ritually made extraordinary is an intersting concept. People all over the world partake in rituals, which means that there are a huge amount of sacred places in the world. Every place in the world has the potential to be sacred if someone feels that it is to them. Like Hirata in Cold Fever; he performed the Japanese ritual, making that place sacred to him and his family, but to many or most onlooking that place is just a dangerous, cold wilderness. If a place is percieved by someone to be important enough to perform a ritual at, them it seems fitting that the place be considered sacred and more than ordinary.