LARC 1950 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Plant Collecting, Serpent Mound, Minoan Civilization

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Landscape Architecture
• Course: LARC 1950
• Professor: Ben O' Hara

Document Summary

Magic, myth and nature: rituals to pacify nature, understand the seasonal rhythms of nature, rituals we holistic in nature, relationship between built and natural features, celestial reference points (notes) also place spiritual forces on natural places. Cave painting, stone circles, etc, expression between human and forces. Magic, myth and nature: spiritual meaning placed on natural surroundings, expressions of a partnership between humans and spiritual forces, searching for meaning in the sky, fusion of myth-based religion and scientific observation (notes) the pyramid express cosmic concepts. Form are all consistent, but very distant in time and space. Magic, myth and nature: caves have a reoccuring role, earth goddess, fertile source of human vitality (notes) cave = womb of the earth goddess. Magic, myth and nature: grottos, reflected in roman villas and revived in renaissance garden design, cave sanctuaries (notes) cave worship influences ideas of the grotto.