once pristine:
060607;157 |
| 'abandon all hope, ye who enter'. the shinto tori, an open gateway symbolizing transition from mundane to holy. the entrance to the contemplation garden, the passage from mundane to sacred. the Egyptian stela, false door, symbolically allows the soul to fly through. the half-open roman doors depicting death. the portal dolmens, megalithic tombs, upright boulders capped by one flat stone, the lintel stone or capstone, the earliest post and lintel formation. the practice of these tombs developed independently in different parts of the world. dolmens more than four thousand years old, made with stones weighing up to 50 tons and carved without metal, transported without wheels. |
|
|