Sacred Objects And Places
Scope Note
Conception of sanctity (e.g., possession by an indwelling or frequenting spirit, infusion with impersonal supernatural power); idols and fetishes; extraordinary objects (e.g., bezoar stones, albino animals, mandrake roots); etc.
- Broader Term
- 770 Religious Beliefs
- Related Terms
- 150 Behavior Processes And Personality
- 182 Functional/adaptational Interpretations
- 577 Ethics
- 769 Cult Of The Dead
- 779 Theological Systems
- 789 Magic
- 795 Religious Denominations
- 812 Philosophy
- 829 Ethnosociology
- 869 Transmission Of Beliefs
- Use Fors
- Albino animals (sacred)
- Altars
- Amulets (sacramentals)
- Ancestral tablets
- Animal albinism (as sacred)
- Animals (sacred)
- Animatism
- Asylums (sanctuaries)
- Bezoar stones
- Blades (ceremonial)
- Bundle (ceremonial)
- Ceremonial bundle
- Christian shrines
- Consecration of objects
- Crucifix (sacramental)
- Desecration
- Earthworks (sacred places)
- Fetishes (religious)
- Grottoes (sacred places)
- Holy water (sacramental)
- Human relics as sacred objects
- Icon (sacred object)
- Idols (sacred objects)
- Juju (sacred objects)
- Mana
- Mandrake
- Mecca (sacred place)
- Medicine bags
- Oracle bones (sacred objects)
- Places (sacred)
- Power (infusion with supernatural)
- Ritual objects
- Rosaries (sacramentals)
- Sacramentals
- Sacred animals
- Sacred objects and places
- Sacred wells
- Sanctity (ideas about)
- Sanctuaries
- Shrines (sacred places)
- Soul stuff
- Stela (pl. stelae, var. stele), as marker of sacred place
- Stones (bezoar)
- Supernatural power
- Symbolic ritual objects
- Symbolism of religious objects and places
- Temples (sacred places)
- Water (holy)
- Wells (sacred)
- Identifier
- 778
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