Abodes for the Gods

This book interprets the diverse forms of sacred architecture by examining the world-views, religious beliefs, and rituals of the cultures that built them. The study employs a multi-disciplinary approach: historical records, religious texts, archaeological findings, linguistic data, works of art, archaeo-astronomy, mathematical development, biology, and ancient sailing records. Perhaps most important is the demonstration that the pre-Euclidean geometry, traced in Pre-Euclidean Geometry...
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This book interprets the diverse forms of sacred architecture by examining the world-views, religious beliefs, and rituals of the cultures that built them. The study employs a multi-disciplinary approach: historical records, religious texts, archaeological findings, linguistic data, works of art, archaeo-astronomy, mathematical development, biology, and ancient sailing records. Perhaps most important is the demonstration that the pre-Euclidean geometry, traced in Pre-Euclidean Geometry in the Design of Mission Churches of the Spanish Borderlands, was in use by the Neolithic period, as shown in megalithic sites of England and the Mediterranean, Egyptian pyramids and rock-cut tombs, and the temples and temple complexes of Mesopotamia, Persia, India, and Southeast Asia.