"Pagan" Architecture and Structures

[Artaxat]

Winter Solistice Celebration at Garni Temple, Armenia

0.40 bringing the Sacred Bull
0.50 starting the Sacred Fire (symbolic birth of new Sun)
1.15 consecration of the Sword
1.00 Slaying the Bull
1.40 Spilling the Sacred Blood on white Snow (purity, sacrifice)
2.40 Dance and celebrate, noisy flute, drums to scare off southern invaders
3.10 A Martial Arts session to scare off potential enemies
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PS: for animal friendly users, the Bull's meat is cooked and eaten by the crowd. So it's not Sacrifice for nothing, but a sacrifice for a Nation and Its Peeople.

[Ar-Man]

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Man the Karate demonstration in the end is killing me, I remember in the 80s early 90s half of the kids were into folk dancing while the other half(Bruce Lee fans) was into some kind of martial arts, performing everywhere at some ceremony, inaguration etc.

[askra]

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?

yes, it's the same complex

the hole had two functions, collecting rain water and the study of moon phases, exactly every 18 years during the winter solstice the Moon reflects itself perfectly perpendicular in the bottom of the well.

while the Sun rays reach the bottom of the well during the spring equinox entering from the main entrance (where there are the stairs)

this is the hole at the top of the well (it's very little)













there are other holy wells like this, but they are today in ruins

[Thunderkin]

I would have loved to see one of the Ancient Hofs the Germanic tribes built.
Unfortunately they were destroyed or just abandoned and rotted away.