[silk] Thread Drift: Origins of temples/churches/mosques: Was coming calamity in Bangalore

2013-04-18 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Very true but when you claim prehistoric divine origin rather than built by a king type origins .. So question to Silklisters. I used to think that a dedicated place of worship, a place to keep the god was a

Re: [silk] Thread Drift: Origins of temples/churches/mosques: Was coming calamity in Bangalore

2013-04-18 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Temples weren't invented here or only here obviously, though this became the land of temples. They go afaik much further back than proto-Abrahamic - hard to find any standing so it's all debatable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_religion Fire temples are evidenced in Aryan history -

Re: [silk] Thread Drift: Origins of temples/churches/mosques: Was coming calamity in Bangalore

2013-04-18 Thread Thaths
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote: Temples weren't invented here or only here obviously, though this became the land of temples. They go afaik much further back than proto-Abrahamic - hard to find any standing so it's all debatable.

Re: [silk] Thread Drift: Origins of temples/churches/mosques: Was coming calamity in Bangalore

2013-04-18 Thread Thejaswi Udupa
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: I think worshipping, celebrating, sacrificing as a group goes way way back, possibly to Neolithic or Stone Age times. The excavations at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey goes back to ~10,000 BC, and have been established as religious

Re: [silk] Thread Drift: Origins of temples/churches/mosques: Was coming calamity in Bangalore

2013-04-18 Thread Tim Bray
And if you get way out in the fringes of the New-age/mysticism crowd, you can learn about Ley lines and how the places they cross are invariably sacred across the centuries, etc On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Thejaswi