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      @ZoeSTodd This is the major key of colonialism meets spirituality: silencing, denial, obliteration. But the minor overtones strike me as critical too: So many crosses raised upon sacred hillsides, Dookʼoʼoosłííd, / Nuva'tukya'ovi renamed for St Francis, shrines and sacred objects amassed.
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    @ZoeSTodd What's going on in these cases at the Pitt-Rivers museum? First, so many and an assertion of the power to narrate them all in one cosmology. Second, a recognition of latent power, what the secular West calls "timeless" and "priceless." … (photo cc-by-sa Geni)
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      @ZoeSTodd And third, an separation of artifact from ceremony, from ongoing use, and from ceremony.
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        @ZoeSTodd Meanwhile, sacred space persists in the secular nation: inside the Crypt of the Unknown Soldier and above the footprint of Ground Zero. Capital-letter spiritual entities abound, Science and sometimes Nature (and especially "Human Nature," whatever that is) among them.
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          @ZoeSTodd Anyhow, gratitude for the larger point and my attempt at a thoughtful addition.
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