PROTECTION OF SACRED OBJECTS AGAINST DESTRUCTION AND/OR PROFANATION BY COVERING THEM UNDER TUMULUS OR BY BURYING THEM INTO THE GROUND Cover Image
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ЗАКРИЛА НА СВЕТИНИ: СВЕТИ ОБЕКТИ, ПРЕДПАЗЕНИ ОТ РАЗРУШАВАНЕ И/ИЛИ ОСКВЕРНЯВАНЕ ЧРЕЗ ЗАТРУПВАНЕ ИЛИ ВКОПАВАНЕ
PROTECTION OF SACRED OBJECTS AGAINST DESTRUCTION AND/OR PROFANATION BY COVERING THEM UNDER TUMULUS OR BY BURYING THEM INTO THE GROUND

Author(s): Lyubomir Tsonev
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Archaeology, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Architecture, Visual Arts, Sociology, Ethnohistory, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Oral history, Political history, Social history, Special Historiographies:, Theology and Religion, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Art, History of Art, Prehistory
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ
Keywords: sacral buildings; desecration; protection; earth mound;

Summary/Abstract: The report presents specific monuments from different periods in Thrace – megalithic, Thracian, Roman, early Christianity and Ottoman period. These monuments are sacral buildings or remains of destroyed sacral buildings, which on some occasion were buried with an earth mound. The most likely reason for this act is the desire to protect the holy places from destruction, further destruction, or desecration. This ritual tradition has survived on our lands for almost three millennia, although not universal and with varying intensity in different epochs.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 217-241
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Bulgarian
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