sacred landscape
Spiritually significant place
A sacred landscape is a natural area or geographic region imbued with spiritual, religious, or cultural significance by the people who inhabit or revere it.
Such places—mountains, groves, rivers, deserts—are often considered dwelling places of deities or ancestors, sites of revelation, or spaces where the boundary between earthly and divine feels thin.
Uluru is a sacred landscape for Aboriginal Australians.
Indigenous peoples worldwide have sacred landscapes that may conflict with commercial development or government land use.
- holy groundPlace of spiritual significance
- AvalonMystical island of lore
- templeSacred worship structure
- OlympusSacred Greek mountain
- world treeCosmic connector of realms
axis mundi · Machu Picchu · Ganges River · Lake Titicaca · shrine · mosque · Eden · Zion · Uluru · Chichen Itza · Vatican City · ley lines · power spot · pilgrimage site · cathedral · Shangri-La · pagoda · monastery
- HimalayasMount Everest, Everest, K2, Nepal, Tibet
- pilgrimagepilgrim, pilgrims, hajj, pilgrimage routes, Mecca
sacred landscapeindustrial zone
Area designated for factories
strip mine · commercial development · factory farm · parking lot · urban sprawl
sacred landscapewasteland
Uninhabitable barren region
toxic dump · contaminated zone · scorched earth · brownfield
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