Archeologists can tell us a great deal about ancient civilizations, but there will always be more that is simply lost to the sands of time. More mysterious still are the ways in which our distant ancestors have shaped us—things we know and things we do without ever recognizing that they come to us from our deep history.
What do you know without being able to identify the source of that knowledge?
I have walked the steps of this ancient temple. I call it a “temple” because. in my mind, it is the type of edifice that would be built for some ritualistic use. Although it may not have the same impression on me in these days, I intuit that humans who built this temple had some similar feeling to those which we have today when we honor or recognize something that has affected our way of life. Some may be abhorrent to us; some may instill pride. As a contemporary example, the Vietnam Wall in D C honors but also instills a sense of our incapacity to end war, I believe. What this temple shows may represent something which we think we can fathom but I’m not sure that we can.