A number of books of horror and also a fantasy have been set in the far northern and far southern latitudes. Veneration of Frankenstein, celebrating its 200th anniversary this year, takes place on board the ship of the polar explorer Robert Walton.At the close of the novel, Victor Frankenstein heads out onto the ice towards the pole in pursuit of his monster.
And their religion was, it was in two parts. It was veneration of ancestors and it was veneration of nature. And the veneration of ancestors is extremely important because it was basically the ancestors were the people who got you to where you were.
It was veneration of ancestors and it was veneration of nature. And the veneration of ancestors is extremely important because it was basically the ancestors were the people who got you to where you were. The ancestors were the people who had everything to teach you, right?
The ancestors were the people who had everything to teach you, right? And then it was veneration of nature 'cause of course, nature is the thing that's trying to kill you. And then you had your ancestor, every family, tribe or city had their ancestor gods, and then they had their nature gods.
housed in the head. And so the head was given particular veneration , and you go to almost any grave site, and it is the skull that is in pride of place. So the Touch Press people came to me and said, we're going to photograph all these skulls.
I was surprised by so much. You mentioned the kind of veneration of Saint Dave, which I know his something that Franzen pretty publicly called in that "New Yorker" piece about going to
I think also because there might have been a move to try to canonize Mezzofanti, and the first step in the canonization process in the Roman Catholic Church is to make sure that the person's body has not been taken for veneration by any other group. So this is what they found, or an artist's rendering of what they found when they opened up Mezzofanti's tomb.
Like a good Oxford debater, you always have three arguments. But in America, there is a veneration for soldiers and the war dead, at least publicly.
you could really say, from the founders' perspective, the bad guys won, right? If you're If you're a founder, you believe about. You know, I think of the way ancestor veneration shows up culturally, it shows up spiritually,
The body is made of limestone. This was a cult goddess that would have sat at the center of a Greek temple as the object of veneration for likely Greek settlers in the kind of outskirts outside of Greece. She knew from the fact that it was an acrolith that it was almost certainly from southern Italy.
Italy uh Vienna Hungary France Scandinavia Belgium Holland Germany and in each of these countries he was put up in these palaces and treated with such veneration by all the crown heads um that he realized they all believed that he was going to become
- So that's the interesting thing about Xi Jinping and the China today is there is that tension of Confucianism and communism where communism Marxism is supposed to, you know, let go of history, and Confucianism, there's a real veneration of history that's happening in China of today. So they're able to wear both hats and balance it.
After decades of legal study and 25 years of service as one of America's top Judges, he's been fully briefed. And of James Madison, too, that we not suffer a blind veneration for antiquity, as something slightly different--that we should just get over ourselves, stick with the program, and
And for the next three weeks, for the next three weeks, people came to our house to look at the rose. It was quite something. They would come in India you know when you go to a house of veneration uh or a sacred place you take off your shoes etc. So they would come and take