The Manitou Stone: A Sacred Object in the Wrong Place

The Alberta State Museum displays the sanctuary of Manitou, the first ethnic group of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This sacred subject has a long history of indigenous people, but there are also many controversies surrounding it. Hundreds of years ago, the object was removed from its original location and came back and forth in Canada and ended up at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton. This sacred thing is said to have much power for indigenous people and when it is taken it brings great difficulties to indigenous groups who believe in the power of Manitou.

But what is sacred? What do I mean? For most of us in the US, we believe that the cross and the Bible are sacred. It is easy to think that they are sacred as they have specific intrinsic properties. Jesus is dead, so the cross is sacred. But considering all sacred things human beings think, the concept of intrinsic value of that thing collapses. Humans express sacred things with the cross, stone, kangaroos, snakes, birds, water, 10,000 letters, flags, and yellow ribbons. Durkheim's point of view is that sanctity is not a function of things, sanctity is to be placed on things.

By expressing divinity it will be something else, but that is still it. The sacred stone is still a stone; apparently (or rather from a cranky point of view), I can not distinguish it from all the other stones. But for those whose stones are sacred, their direct reality can be turned into supernatural reality. This sacred concept seems to require a transcendental, supernatural invention. Even if an event or entity can not explain it, it is still natural, but it makes sense that everything is natural. Allow tautology: What is nature? The difference between "nature" and "supernatural" is meaningful only when it is meaningful in the contrast context with sacred things.

Hierophanee - From now on, that is, when Muslims consider it to be sacred - this ambiguous object has changed; it is no longer a stone but a sacred object, it can be said that it is orderly sacred Impressive package on the inside. Eliade calls supernatural injection a natural thing, "sacred dialectic". Specifically, although the shape is limited and it is even possible to move from one place to another, sacred rocks, contrary to their limitations, may be used to convey the character of God to believers' eyes, Features, robustness can be passed. The holy stone Carva makes for the Muslims can imply that it is the unwavering and unchanging God, the omnipotent, infinite, absolute world creator. If you truly oppose sanctity, how can it become its exact opposition?