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A doorway humans build to convince the infinite to keep a local address.
means A sacred place or structure dedicated to a holy person, deity, or memory, where people come to venerate, pray, or remember.
from From Old English 'scrīn,' a chest or coffer for relics, borrowed from Latin 'scrinium,' a case or box for holding scrolls, papers, or precious things. The thread runs from a humble container of documents to a vessel for holy bones, and finally to any place built to house the sacred — the box grew large enough to step inside.
- Japan count
- Over 80,000 Shinto shrines dot the islands
- portable kind
- Mikoshi shrines get carried, shaken, and crowd-surfed
- oldest
- Göbekli Tepe predates farming by millennia
- roadside breed
- Italian edicole still guard countless street corners
- fan version
- Bedroom poster walls are unofficial celebrity shrines
fushimi inari taisha — kyoto, japan - over 30,000 vermillion torii gates dedicated to the shinto goddess of rice
meiji shrine — tokyo, japan - dedicated to emperor meiji in 1920, receives over 3 million visitors annually
shrine of the book — jerusalem, israel - houses the dead sea scrolls, israel's oldest biblical texts