This week's prompt for Sepia Saturday is long. I like finding something on these themes...whcih seem to go all over the place...now long/short, soon high/low will be coming!
But here's another "long" to satisfy this meme.
The earliest surviving fan vaults are the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral in England are , designed between 1351 and 1377 by Thomas de Cantebrugge. Source: Archeology & Civilizations facebook post.
Today's quote: (not sure I agree with him)
In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive … For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so to derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator, is the root meaning of religion.
—D. H. Lawrence
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ReplyDeleteThe Great Wall of China is an amazing sight. I love the cathedral, so beautiful. Take care, have a happy weekend.
Again, my reply disappeared...and it was the first one this morning! Argh! Thanks Eileen. I still wish you a happy weekend, though it's half over already! So glad to have your comments!
Delete...the wall is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI certainly is a feat of engineering!
DeleteThose fan vaults are amazing. And beautiful.
ReplyDeleteSome smart monks (or church engineers) did a great job!
DeleteI like those long/short, high/low prompts too. And that picture of the ceiling vaults goes so well with the prompt.
ReplyDeleteHmm, how would anyone know what the oldest religion believed?
ReplyDeleteI thought the same...a bit of an assumption.
DeleteMy SiL visited the wall and also saw the terracotta warriors.
ReplyDeleteOh how fortunate for him/her.
DeleteThe wall is incredible.
ReplyDeleteIt continues to amaze, generation after generation.
DeleteThe cathedral draws my eye.
ReplyDeleteI would certainly like to walk down that hall!
DeleteThe picture of the cloisters was a great choice to match the theme image. I think I've been there or at least to a similar one in England. Both images seem to invite the viewer to take a long journey. One for knowledge and the other spiritual.
ReplyDeleteA good description of the long hallways.
DeleteImages to fit the theme, for sure!
ReplyDeleteYes, and not excatly from my own collection...oh well. Maybe next week.
DeleteThe "Wall" is an awesome work, & the cathedral is gorgeous & both are perfect matches to the prompt. :) I also like your inclusion of D.H. Lawrence's comment as he has said almost exactly what I feel - except for the "dark sort of" joy. I don't know what he means by that? I would simply say "joy"!
ReplyDeleteThnks Gail. Not sure of Dark sort of joy either. I'll take the regular kind.
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