"Pagan" Architecture and Structures

[Liffrea]

Literature has some good ideas:

Heorot:





A stylised version:


Meduseld (Tolkien's version of Heorot):





Stone circles:

Two from Derbyshire where I have been involved in blots, the first is Arbor Low:


Nine Ladies:


Personally I'm more in favour of natural settings (Dove Dale in Derbyshire):

[Lithium]

All stone circles around the world are amazing!

[Óttar]

There's no reason why we couldn't employ stained glass. Check out these Germanic gods from Cardiff castle.

Mani the moon god.



Tyr



Woden



Thor



Frigga



Saeter ()



Syf (Sunna) at Cardiff castle



Check out these statues from a "garden temple" in Stowe, Buckhinghamshire:

Syf (Sunna)



Thor (Thunor)



Here's a temple to Mithras (called Mihr by the Armenians) in Artashat, present day Yarevan, Armenia. Contemporary Armenian pagans have taken to gathering here:

[Osweo]

I was just reading about the Toda of southern India. They have some nice rustic easy-to-do sites;






That little house and yard remind me superficially of our wooden structures of the neolithic, later replaced by long barrows.

It's not too different from their houses;


An odd thing;

Here's two of them;

(Frightfully inbred, actually. There were only a few hundred early last century, and they all look very alike, apparently! Supposedly an island of nordindids deep in the south, reminiscent of Sikhs, anthropologically speaking)

Vishwanathan, H., et al, 'Insertions/Deletions Polymorphism in Tribal Populations of Southern India and their possible Evolutionary Implications, Human Biology. Vol 75. #6. December 2003. The Toda & Kota have shared genes which separate them from the other Nilgiri Hill Tribes and share their closest affinity to the Greek Cypriots.

[Argyll]

Here's some Celtic heathen architecture:


I know some people are going to grumble at stone circles being Celtic or not, but I believe that they are, more or less, because the Celtic people were descended from the Megalithic people, which can be seen at the spiral patterns at New Grange.




Spiral patterns at Newgrange:





Alas, I can't really find any Celtic heathen architecture, besides from the huts. However, Urquhart castle could be considered heathen architecture, if you go by the legend in where the heathen Picts lived there and were converted by Saint Columba after witnessing a Pict being saved from the Loch Ness Monster.

[askra]

the Holy Wells

the most beautiful one is the holy well and astronomic observatory of Santa Cristina built about 1,100 years BC.
it was used for the cult of water and the study of the solstices and the Lunar motion and phases.




The Giant's Graves





The Domus de Janas(the houses of the fairies) built between 3400 and 2700 BC







step pyramids

the megalithic temple and astronomic observatory of Monte D' Accoddi (the most ancient part of the building is dated 4,000 years BC). it was discovered less than 40 years ago, another similar structure was discovered last year.




Menhirs (in Sardinia are called Pedras Fittas or Betili)

a menhir next to the town of gavoi


the menhir of perda Pintà:


the Biru e' concas alignments


the menhir of Corru Tundu (the tallest of Sardinia - 6 meters)


the ruin of a menhir and some prehistoric cinerary urns


there are also a lot of dolmens and menhir circles.

[Nairi]

Garni (Armenian: Գառնի) is a temple complex located in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, situated approximately 32 km southeast from Yerevan.

The first traces of human occupation date back to the 3rd millennium BC and are concentrated in an easily defensible terrain at one of the bends of the Azat river. The first literary testimony to the existence of a fortress on the spur crowning the site of Garni comes from the Roman historian Tacitus and dates from the middle of the 1st century AD. Excavation of the existing remains was conducted for a brief period in 1909–1910 and was later resumed (1949) by Soviet archaeologists. The results have shown that the actual fortification had been erected much earlier, probably sometime in the 3rd century BC[1] as a summer residence for the Armenian Orontid and Artaxiad royal dynasties.[2] The fortress of Garni (Gorneas in Latin) became the last refuge of king Mithridates of Armenia, where he and his family were assassinated by his son in law and nephew Rhadamistus.[3] Several constructions and buildings have been identified within the enclosed area, including a two-storey royal summer palace, a bath complex, a church built in AD 897,[2] a cemetery[1] and the site's most famous and best preserved edifice, a peristyle Greco-roman temple built in the Ionic order. Of particular interest is the bathhouse located in the northern part of the site.





Mosaic floor in bathhouse



ARmenian ARordis (sons of Sun God AR/pagans) hold their festives at Garni Temple.

















It is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Armenia

[Hurrem sultana]

looks nice

[Artaxat]

the Holy Wells

the most beautiful one is the holy well and astronomic observatory of Santa Cristina built about 1,100 years BC.
it was used for the cult of water and the study of the solstices and the Lunar motion and phases.

Majestic! specially the stone fitted conical roof and the hole in the roof to allow sun ray pierce into the chamber. This enables observing the cyclical/seasonal patterns.

The two pictures are from the same complex?

[Amapola]

Iberian old megalites, all in Antequera, Málaga


























and the wonderful view of the hill the natives had from the tombs