I share your view on the "Tomb" tag. Archaeologists classified Newgrange as a passage tomb, however Newgrange is now recognised to be much more than a passage tomb. Ancient Temple is a more fitting classification, a place of astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance, much as present day cathedrals are places of prestige and worship where dignitaries may be laid to rest.
Good to provide a review trailer for the DVD here, nice production. I always have a personal conflict with the word "tombs" being used with these ancient monuments. Eventually they were used as tombs, I suspect because of convenience, but were they originally built for that? . Hard to believe so much living time was dedicated and used up by so many people to prepare a structure for dying. Do we spend a huge chunk of our time on earth today preparing for our passing? There's much more here.
I think of a cairn as a dome, stone or wood. Newgrange is stone covered with a lawn put on top isn't it? I somehow doubt it had a lawn on it in its hay day, but again we do not know. There may be a surprise there. For all way know there may have been hydroponic gardens all around like the hanging gardens of Babylon. Nice thought, but pure fiction at this stage :-)
I suppose I am cautious and just use the word "cairn" to leave it open for visitors to create their own story from their feelings along with what they may have read that they could connect to. I once used the word "temple" but thought that was going too far, though our vision of "temple" today is very different to the time of the ancient word "teampall", just as "city" today is very different to its ancient word "cille", and in the USA a city does not even relate to a sacred place
I share your view on the "Tomb" tag.
Archaeologists classified Newgrange as a passage tomb, however Newgrange is now recognised to be much more than a passage tomb. Ancient Temple is a more fitting classification, a place of astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance, much as present day cathedrals are places of prestige and worship where dignitaries may be laid to rest.
Good to provide a review trailer for the DVD here, nice production. I always have a personal conflict with the word "tombs" being used with these ancient monuments. Eventually they were used as tombs, I suspect because of convenience, but were they originally built for that? . Hard to believe so much living time was dedicated and used up by so many people to prepare a structure for dying. Do we spend a huge chunk of our time on earth today preparing for our passing? There's much more here.
I thought about using the term "cairn" instead of "tomb", but that might bring more confusion because a cairn is normally a stone covered site.
I think of a cairn as a dome, stone or wood. Newgrange is stone covered with a lawn put on top isn't it? I somehow doubt it had a lawn on it in its hay day, but again we do not know. There may be a surprise there. For all way know there may have been hydroponic gardens all around like the hanging gardens of Babylon. Nice thought, but pure fiction at this stage :-)
I suppose I am cautious and just use the word "cairn" to leave it open for visitors to create their own story from their feelings along with what they may have read that they could connect to. I once used the word "temple" but thought that was going too far, though our vision of "temple" today is very different to the time of the ancient word "teampall", just as "city" today is very different to its ancient word "cille", and in the USA a city does not even relate to a sacred place