Day 4 was spent traversing mountain top to mountain top overlooking the desert we were about to descend into. The view got me talking to Cameron about the origin of the word temples. The greek word Tempulem and similarly the Hebrew word for temple (I'm probably spelling this wrong, I am no etymologist) both mean the sacred cut. It comes from when the Greeks who would go away from society (cut off from the everyday world) and on a hill or mountain (exactly like we were) look up at the stars and contemplate man's role in the cosmos. Temples are sacred spaces cut off from the mundane, and consecrated to the divine. Cameron was loving this because that was exactly what he was doing.
So we stayed up all night talking about the stars, Hermeticism, and tying in Egyptian and Greek Gods to temple rituals. It was our first, long, solid, spiritual discussion without Aj and Curtis, So I was grateful to develop that bond with Cameron.
The Latin root I think it is "templum"..meaning "piece of ground consecrated for the taking of auspices, building for worship,"
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I was impressed you spelled etymology right. :)
Great teaching experience.
I love this line
"Temples are sacred spaces cut off from the mundane, and consecrated to the divine."
the best ones are found in nature and not confined within walls built by man.
Haha thanks for doing the grunt work. I miss you Dave, but I am grateful for the bits of wisdom your able to share despite the circumstances
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