grgr (34): "the tower" (747)

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

There are also naturally occuring "faces" on mountainsides most
everywhere imaginative people look. And Vincent Scully has analyzed
sacred land forms  in the context of ancient Greek and Minoan culture,
and also among the Maya, Anasazi and Pueblo peoples of the Americas. A
dirty old man after my own heart, he finds not faces but suggestive
bumps and clefts and horns almost everywhere he turns.

But my earlier question hangs out there: whose souls end up in all
those stones? As I read it "a soul in every stone" refers to some state
of damnation, rather than to an aprehension of a supernaturally
animated natural world.  What do you think?

Mark

--- Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Otto Sell wrote:
> > 
> > And of the faces of mountainsides I always thought of Monument
> Valley, the
> > giant Presidents' faces. Who are put into stone there? F****ing
> encarta does
> > not give the names.
> 
> 
> Are you speaking of Mt. Rushmore? If so, there are Washington,
> Jefferson,
> Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt (last time I was there anyway).
> 
> 			P.
> 


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