November 12, 2008 – 10:46 pm
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I came across a talk today by Elder Neal A. Maxwell which he gave at a BYU devotional on October 10, 1978, entitled “Meeting the Challenges of Today.” Some of the things he [...]
October 22, 2008 – 3:33 pm
Grandpa Enoch over at Pronaos wrote a few days ago that Archaeology Magazine’s latest issue has a cover article by Sandra Scham entitled “The World’s First Temple”. The magazine Science also did an article on the same subject back in January 2008. There are many articles that are being published, all focused on one archeological [...]
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September 17, 2008 – 10:41 am
Hugh Nibley gave a lecture in 1975 on “Sacred Vestments” which was later transcribed and included in the collected works volume Temple and Cosmos (pgs. 91-132). The entire paper is fascinating, and highly recommended reading. One of the things he wrote about were certain Chinese artifacts which had been found depicting two mythological gods, Nüwa [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Scholarship
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Also tagged ancients, celestial, chinese, compass, construction, cosmology, creation, earth, heaven, hugh nibley, marks, marriage, noah, philosophy, ritual, scholar, square, symbol, symbols, universe, veil, yin yang
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Professor Hugh Nibley often taught that the temple was the source of many of the institutions, forms, and trappings of our modern-day society. He once remarked:
There is no part of our civilization which doesn’t have its rise in the temple.
Nibley also made the comments:
So poetry, music, and dance go out to the world from [...]