Sacred Sites
Sacred Sites
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Hundley, Jessica, ed. Sacred Sites. Foreword by Lita Albuquerque. Library of Esoterica 5. Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2024.
A visual pilgrimage through holy mountains, great pyramids, and golden shrines, Sacred Sites, the fifth volume in Taschen's Library of Esoterica series, celebrates the ways we transform the world around us through ritual, creativity, and worship. Filled with essays, interviews and more than 400 images, you will explore spaces ranging from ancient temples to modern works of spatial art. Sacred Sites takes us on a journey through the history of sacred art and architecture and explores the myriads of ways in which we imbue our environments with profound and enduring meaning. From our early designation of nature and the body as temple to our futuristic embrace of imaginary realms, we travel the vast and mystical landscapes of myth, religion, and imagination.
When humans gather, we ignite our spaces with spirit, we circle the bonfire, bow down at the forest altar, give praise at the temple to our chosen divinities. Through pilgrimage, we carve indelible pathways, making our meditative way across continents, generations of footsteps treading, again and again, upon sacred grounds. And through our creative offerings to spirit - we envision new worlds, wildly imaginative odes to what we deem as holy; golden temples hewn of rock, enormous spirals sculpted from sand and soil, silent sanctuaries hidden among wooded groves. We paint the ancient cave walls, carve petroglyphs to mark the way, place roses in veneration at the candlelit shrine.
Slowly, stone-by-stone, we build monuments to our gods, a cosmic geometry held within our sacred architecture of worship. These hidden patterns can be found in the mysterious, towering pyramids found across the globe and throughout an astounding diversity of cultures, in the marble sanctuaries built to house the Greek and Roman goddesses, and in the windblown mountain monasteries of ancient Asia and the indigenous cliff-dwellings of the American Southwest.
Nature, art, beauty, these are the common elements found both within the places made sacred by our ancestors and in the multitude of environments where we strive to connect to source, and to ourselves. Tracing a hallowed route from rugged stone temples to transcendent works of modern architecture, the fifth volume in The Library of Esoterica celebrates the collective history of spaces made sacrosanct through human worship.
Jessica Hundley is an author, filmmaker and journalist. She has written for the likes of Vogue, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, and has authored books on artists including Dennis Hopper, David Lynch, and Gram Parsons. Hundley often explores the counterculture in her work, with a focus on metaphysics, psychedelia, and magic. Hundley is the executive editor of Taschen's Library of Esoterica.
Taschen is a carbon-neutral publisher. Portions from the sale of each Taschen book goes to Instituto Terra, a reforestation program in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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