Temples...What are they good for?
Do you want to sacrifice an innocent person to the heathen gods?
Ask the Aztecs.
Do you want to build a house for your deities?
Ask the Egyptians.
Do you want a community center for fellow believers?
Ask the Christians.
It is amazing how different cultures can come up with various ideas on how to use a building. I personally think that we should build temples again, this time, we should build them as a community centers/historic museums. And we should actually build them out of stone and wood, not out of plaster and plastic.
The Build
This build took me a day and a half to complete this. Sounds pathetic, but I do work a lot and I have other projects going on. I just used some stone, cobblestone and vines and I let the rest work itself out. It was actually fun to do this and I might make a bigger and a more sophisticated version of it later.
Facts about Temples
"The oldest known temple is that at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey which is 11,500 years old and is decorated with reliefs and pictograms of various plants and animals thought to represent the gods of that place."
In Egypt, "The temple also was a mirror of the universe and a representation of the ben-ben, the sacred mound which rose out of chaos by the will of Amon at the beginning of time."
"The Greek word synagogue came to describe Jewish places of worship during the Babylonian Captivity and meant 'to gather together'. The original Hebrew words Bet Knesset ("House of Meeting") and synagogue designate Jewish temples today."
https://www.worldhistory.org/temple/
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