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| "Marked-off" or "prohibited," act or object that is considered forbidden because of the wonder and purity as well as of the fear and danger it presents |
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| Associating humans tribes or classes with animals or plants from which the group has some close relationship. That are considered vehicles or bearers of sacred powers |
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| Literally "skillfully made" (Polynesian). Refers to various objects, both natural and artificial,that are endowed with supernatural power and are capable or averting evil or bringing good |
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| Author of The Idea of the Holy, claimed that the "holy" is fundamentally a non-rational and ineffable datum of human primal experience of a sacred power with feelings of awe, fear, purity and danger |
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| (Otto) describes the uniquely human religious experience/phenomenon; giving feelings of "creature-consciousness" being overwhelmed by its contrast to the Supreme |
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| (Otto) Mysterium: Experience beyond our capacity to describe or comprehend, something that is wholly other; Tremendum: Particular feeling of dread and awe. Basically, describes a person's religious experience with god. |
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| (Otto) The positive emotions (joyfulness, praise, adoration) associated with experiencing the Mysterium Tremendum. |
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| Historian of religion; focus on the way the sacred appears in space and time of human history. One discerns the manifestations of the sacred within ordinary human objects, myths, and rituals. Moreover, this discernment emerges from the cosmos and comes to the individual as a form of revelation (heirophany): "Something sacred shows itself to us." |
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| Literally means something sacred showing itself to us. Also; any act or manifestation of the sacred. |
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| Literally, "The center of the world." Used to describe a place where the sacred and the profane meet. Think of Jacob's dream of the ladder that connects heaven to earth that had angels ascending and decending on it. Or the Ka'ba in Mecca for Islam |
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| Literally, "The image of the world." Describes the image of the original world order. This usually manifests in religion as some symbol or mirror of the cosmos or a specific significant act of the sacred. Think of Hindu's erection of Fire Altars, where the water is likened to the primordial water, the clay represents earth, the lateral walls represent earth, etc. It's construction is equivalent to the creation of the universe. |
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| The study of the origin of the universe, that mirrors the original act of Creation as a prototype of the work of God or the gods |
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| Places where the cremated remains or relics of Buddha or Buddhist Holy persons,and used as places of meditation. Represents the gateway between several planes of existence.Another example of axis mundi |
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| is a image of a circle and underlying square that that symbolizes the total cosmos, expressing the cosmic pattern of the universe and symbolic representation of a Stupa/Pagoda from heavens view. |
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| King David brought the Ark of the Covenant here. Mount Zion served as the axis mundi for for Jews after the temple at Mt. Sinai was destroyed. |
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| Holy days, religious festivals, and time set apart for worship.Places that are only allowed to be accessed during special times during special ceremonies; held as holy and forbidden. |
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