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The FAQ is available at: ftp://ftp.hollyfeld.org/pub/Esoteric/Usenet/Magick/FAQ.amgkfaq.9510 X-URL://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/amgkfaq.html Keywords: Magick, Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction References: ftp://www.hollyfeld.org/pub/Esoteric/Web/Amgkfaq/ From: nagasiva@yronwode.com (tyaginator) Reply-to: nagasiva@yronwode.com (tyaginator) Archive-name: magick/book3ref Version: 9604 Posting-Frequency: monthly or by inquir From: Cyronwode@aol.com Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 14:39:26 -0500 Subject: PT. 1 SACRED SPACES BIBLIOGRAPHY VERSION 3.0 ================================================= SACRED SPACES BIBLIOGRAPHY VERSION 3.0 ================================================= ================================================= The Annotated Sacred Geometry/Sacred Architecture/Sacred Landscape Bibliography (c) 1995 catherine yronwode. Permission is granted to propagate this document electronically if the text is kept intact with (c) notice attached. All other rights reserved, including the right of print publication. ================================================= Hello. Here is the latest edition of the annotated Sacred Geometry/Sacred Architecture/Sacred Landscape Bibliography. There are now more than 200 titles in the list. This bibliography is electronically posted to sustag-principles and announcement of its revision appears in various usenet newsgroups, including alt.architecture, sci.archaeology, alt.mythology, alt.architecture.alternative, alt.chinese.feng-shui, and so forth. It is also available in hard-copy format, which preserves paragraph indentations, justification, and other typographic tricks lost in the ascii form. I want to thank all who have contributed in the past and whose continuing help has made this project useful to those who toil in the field of interdisciplinary studies. Keep sending in those corrections, updates, reviews, and bibliography entries, folks. Yours for more sacred spaces in our everyday, vernacular lives, catherine yronwode, cyronwode@aol.com keeper of the keys ("A chameleon...a tireless collector of symbolic objects...a sort of pre-Raphaelite no-goodnik...an intelligent, highly self-conscious person with complex aesthetic aspirations which she expresses through a process of artistic and literary mimesis...lonely...brilliant, dangerous, and romantic as hell" -- anon.) ================================================= TABLE OF CONTENTS ================================================= 0. Dedication I. Acknowledgements II. How to Contribute III. How to Subscribe to Sustag-Principles IV. Archive Information V. Using Keywords to Locate Topics VI. A Few Words About the Keywords VII. The Bibliography ================================================= 0. DEDICATION ================================================= This is dedicated to The One-Eyed Love, and to the memory of the late, great Reverend Blind Willie Little Son King Junior, whose "Garden of the Tuileries Blues" kept me jumping for twenty-six years and whose death from heart atrophy in 1994 was much lamented. "They say all good friends must part some time, so why not you and i?" ================================================= I. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ================================================= The following contributors to this database have my gratitude: Andreas, andreas@wni.co.jp Richard Austin, raustin@unm.edu Paul Bien, pbien@franklin.fairfield.com Michael Rogero Brown, michaelb@hobbie.bocaraton.ibm.com Fred Burke, fburke@ccnet.com Barry Carroll, bcaleph@aol.com Larry Chow, larry_chow@mindlink.bc.ca Sanguan Chow, sanguan@primenet.com Robert P. Davis, rpd611@sccsi.com William C. Delphenich, Architect, bdelph@pipeline.com Skip Denton, sdenton@mail.sas.upenn.edu Chuck Dinsmore Diomira, diomira@aol.com "Earth," earth@best.com Marcus Endicott, mendicott@igc.org Randolph Fritz, randolph@netcom.com Alan Leung Tak Fung, funglt@newton.ccs.tuns.ca Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.at Richard Gray, rickgray@netcom.com J. Patrick Harrington, jph@astro.umd.edu Jerry Hejka-Ekins, jhe@koko.csustan.edu Clyde Hostetter, chostett@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu Kyle Kuns, arcology@aol.com Mike Lerch, mikelerch@igc.apc.org or lerchm@watmail.ucr.edu Tamar Lindsay, dickeney@access.digex.net Walter K. Lockley, klockley@delphi.com Mark, ex-shovelbum, tiu25@juncol.juniata.edu August Matthusen, Matthusena@mv5.ymp.gov Ernie Marc, Graves Museum of Archaeology, grvesmus@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us Peter Michael Newton, pmn1@cec.wustl.edu Kathleen Ostridge, birdie@netcom.com Judith C. Paulson, JCPaulson@aol.com Eugene Powell, gpowell@ent1.ent.ncsu.edu Todd Pratum, bookseller Jim St. Louis Don Roach Tim Sheppard, Lilliput Press, tim@lilliput-p.win-uk.net Sally Smith, Encore9016@aol.com Sue Ellen Strapp, sestrapp@sam.neosoft.com William Smith, williams@ssd.intel.com Steve Tonkin, stephen.tonkin@almac.co.uk Douglas Woods, doug@drwoods.demon.co.uk Marilyn Wright, Marilyn159@aol.com Monte J. Zerger, mzerger@cc4.adams.edu Comments appended to the bibliography are initialed by contributor(s). ================================================= II. HOW TO CONTRIBUTE ================================================= The Annotated Sacred Geometry/Sacred Architecture/Sacred Landscape Bibliography is regularly updated for new titles and for absent information on extant titles, such as LC (Library of Congress) numbers, ISBN (international standard book numbers), topic key-words, short reviews of contents, and any other new information which becomes available. If you wish to note corrections, append a comment to an extant title, or add titles to the bibliography, please follow the format set forth here. It will save bandwidth to e-mail data to: catherine yronwode - cyronwode@aol.com ================================================= III. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO SUSTAG-PRINCIPLES ================================================= The Annotated Sacred Geometry/Sacred Architecture/Sacred Landscape Bibliography arises from ongoing discussions in the mailing list sustag-principles, whch is maintained at North Carolina State University. If you would like to subscribe to the list, please save this message so that you will have instructions on how to send a message or leave the list. 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Anonymous ftp: ftp sunSITE.unc.edu cd pub/academic/environment/alternative-energy/energy-resources cd architecture/sacred.architecture-geometry-spaces for the bibliography: get sacred.architecture-geometry-spaces.bibliography.v(2.2 or latest number) for the mailing list archives: get the-mailing-list-archives (or get the-mailing-list-archives.1.gz for articles through 3-15-95) Gopher: gopher sunSITE.unc.edu go to: The Worlds of sunSITE Browse sunSITE archives academic environment alternative-energy energy-resources architecture sacred.architecture-geometry-spaces World Wide Web: URL info: gopher://sunsite.unc.edu/11/.pub/academic/environment/alternative-energy/energ y-resources/architecture/sacred.architecture-geometry-spaces/ If you have any questions or requests about the archives, please address: Lawrence F. London, Jr. - london@sunSITE.unc.edu Hard Copy: To obtain a printed copy of this work, please send $3.00 to cover copying and postage to catherine yronwode 6632 covey road forestville, california 95436 ================================================= V. USING KEYWORDS TO LOCATE TOPICS ================================================= The Sacred Geometry/Sacred Architecture/Sacred Landscape Bibliography has been set up using certain selected keywords to define the contents of books. These keywords may not describe the entire contents of any given work, but they have been appended so that you may download this document, import it into your favourite word-processing program, and use your program's "find/change" function to locate topics of interest to you. The keywords for topics are: GEOMETRY: natural proportion, patterns, ratio, golden section, spirals, polygons, polyhedra, Pythagoras, Fibonacci, links between geometry-music-architecture ARCHITECTURE, ART, LANDSCAPE: natural sacred sites, megaliths, mounds, petroglyphs, houses of worship, funerary-cemetery-burial sites, vernacular architecture, archaeoastronomical observatories, astro-calendrical devices, labyrinths, symbolic landscaping, ley lines, feng shui, metrology METAPHYSICS: religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, religious iconography, freemasonic symbolism, number symbolism, magic squares, astrology, occultism, UFOs, Atlantis, sacred site tourism ERA: prehistoric, ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern REGION: Africa, Asia, Australia, Crete, Egypt, Europe, Greece, Meso-America, Middle East, North America, Pacific Islands, Rome, South America, world survey ================================================= VI. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE KEYWORDS ================================================= Some of the keywords are of recent coinage and others are of ambiguous meaning. In discussing the subject with friends on the internet, it has become apparent that the use of words like "ley lines" can brand one as a nut in some archaeological circles, whereas in others, the speaker may merely be asked whether he or she is referring to "alignments" or to "some form of feng shui." With this terminology problem in mind, i am appending a list of meanings i have assigned to a few of the more ambiguous keywords. Natural proportion: Also known as "latent geometry," this is the study of how organic and mineral growth develops along geometric lines. The classic case is that of the golden section, which governs the whorls of the nautilus shell and the sunflower seed head. Spirals: Includes freehand, regularly-wound, and logarithmic spirals, the latter typically derived from "whirling rectangle" geometry. Does not include labyrinths. Natural sacred sites: mountains, springs, rivers, caves, and other natural landscape features considered sacred by indigenous people, whether or not these features have any human-built structure associated with them. Some sites are said to have been the abodes of divinities; others played a role in the enactment of sacred rites. Examples include Mount Moriah, Mount Shasta, the cave at Delphi, Swallowhead Spring (the source of the River Cunnt), the Ganges River, and - if George T. Meaden is correct - the neolithic cursus earthworks of Britain, which mark the paths of ancient tornados. Houses of worship: Any human-built structure, roofed or open, in which sacred rites are or were enacted. Includes temples, churches, synagogues, mosques, kivas, bora rings, megalithic circles, wayside shrines, and archaeological sites which contain altars. Funerary-cemetery-burial sites: Sites where dead human bodies are placed. Includes cairns, barrows, passage graves, cyst graves, cemeteries, ossuaries, catacombs, graveyards, and open-air sites where bodies are cremated, air-dried, or left for carrion birds. Vernacular architecture: Small structures built according to local styles or individual taste without reference to the formal "grammar" of trained architects. Can include homes, small business buildings, houses of worship, funerary-cemetery-burial sites, roadside attractions, and novelty architecture. Examples include thatched cottages in Cornwall, the Winchester Mystery House, the Watts Towers, wayside shrines in India, the Coral Castle, and my farmhouse in Forestville, California. Archaeoastronomical observatories and astro-calendrical devices: Large prehistoric, ancient, medieval, and modern walk-through sites like Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Ankor Wat, and the Georgia Guidestones are keyworded under "archaeoastronomical observatories." Small stationary and portable devices such as sundials, obelisks, the window-date-marker in Notre Dame de Chartres cathedral, and the Chaco Canyon sun dagger are keyworded under "astro-calendrical devices." Labyrinths: Included are both small representations of labyrinths as found on petroglyphs, potsherds, and coins, and walk-through labyrinths (Troytowns or mazes) constructed of stone, earth, tilework, hedging, or other materials. Symbolic landscaping: Modification of the natural landscape to enhance its use for symbolic, allegorical, religious, astronomical observation, or didactic purposes. Ley lines: The term was coined by Alfred Watkins in the 1920s to describe alignments of ancient structures and natural sacred sites in England. Currently the word "alignments" is preferred by archaeoastronomers, while the term "ley lines" has come to be associated with belief in dowsing, geomantic lines of force, and other supernatural phenomena. As used here, the term "ley lines" covers both the work of authors who are cataloguing observable archaeoastronomical alignments and that of authors who believe that such alignments manifest a metaphysical component. Feng shui: A Chinese occult system of belief in geomantic lines of force that govern good and bad fortune. Attempts to modify these lines of force can result in symbolic landscaping on a vast scale. Geomancy is often equated with the belief in ley lines, but feng shui actually differs from the Western tradition in that it has nothing to do with archaeoastronomical alignments. Metrology: The study of measurement. Included under this heading are works by academic historians who have outlined the recorded development of known systems of linear mensuration (e.g. the cubit, the hat, the rod, the metre) as well as works by authors who theorize that prehistoric and ancient builders made use of hypothetical standard measurements, such as the pyramid inch and the megalithic yard. Number symbolism, magic squares, astrology, occultism, UFOs, Atlantis: These metaphysical and unconventional subjects are included as keywords for one or both of the following reasons; either the makers of the sacred structures or symbolic art described in books cited herein utilized them (e.g. the astrological zodiac at the church of San Miniato in Florence and Albrecht Durer's inclusion of a magic square in his engraving "Melancholia I"), or the authors cited in the bibliography make use of them (e.g. Claude Bragdon's explanation of number symbolism in architectural ornament and John Michell's publications on UFOs prior to his work on ancient British sacred sites). The term "occultism" is a catch-all designed to cover a wide range of non-geometric, non-archaeological, and non-architectural topics such as psychometry, cabalism, gematria, ceremonial magic, tarot reading, divination, dowsing, seances, prophecy, palmistry, automatic writing, psychic dreams, and the belief that after Jesus died his wife Mary Magdalene set up housekeeping at Rennes les Chateau, France. Sacred site tourism: Although only a few of the books in this bibliography deal expressly with the subject of sacred site tourism, many of those that cover regional archaeology and architecture can be used as guidebooks. The notation "sacred site tourism" does not mean that a book was marketed to tourists, only that it would be useful to them. Likewise, if a book is not marked "sacred site tourism," that does not mean it would not be a useful guidebook; it merely means that no one has yet appended that keyword to its description. ================================================= Next: The Bibliography Begins! -- with PT. 2 A-B ================================================= From: Cyronwode@aol.com Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 14:39:42 -0500 Subject: PT. 2 A-B SACRED SPACES BIBLIOGRAPHY VERSION 3.0 ================================================= SACRED SPACES BIBLIOGRAPHY VERSION 3.0 ================================================= ================================================= The Annotated Sacred Geometry/Sacred Architecture/Sacred Landscape Bibliography (c) 1995 catherine yronwode. Permission is granted to propagate this document electronically if the text is kept intact with (c) notice attached. All other rights reserved, including the right of print publication. ================================================= PART 2: A-B ================================================= VII. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY ================================================= Alexander, Christopher; Ishikawa, Sara; Silverstein, Murray; with Jacobson, Max; Fiksdahl-King, Ingrid; Angel, Shlomo A Pattern Language Oxford University Press, 1977, ISBN 0-19-501919-9 Alexander, Christopher The Timeless Way of Building Oxford University Press Anati, Emmanuel Camonica Valley originally published in French as La Civilisation du Val Camonica English translation by Linda Asher []-, 1960; Alfred A. Knopf, 1961, LC 61-14193 Keywords: petroglyphs, labyrinths, symbolic landscaping, religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, prehistoric, Europe Comment: A source book on rock carvings of prehistoric Italy; contains excellent pictures, many not reproduced elsewhere. TL Anderson, W. Holy Places of the British Isles Ebury Press, 1983 Andrews, W. S. Magic Squares and Cubes Dover `Publications, 1960, ISBN 0-486-20658-0 Keywords: magic squares Comment: The classic work on magic squares and cubes. Wide-ranging and thorough, yet comprehensible by non-mathematicians. MZ Archibald, R. C. see Hambidge, Jay, Dynamic Symmetry: The Greek Vase Ashe, Geoffrey The Glastonbury Tor Maze Gothic Image, 1979, 16 pp pamphlet, b&w illustrations Keywords: natural sacred sites, labyrinths, symbolic landscaping, ley lines, religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, religious iconography, number symbolism, occultism, sacred site tourism, prehistoric, Europe Comment: Presents the hypothesis that the human-carved ridges along Galastonbury Tor originally formed a seven-ringed labyrinth utilized in prehistoric rituals. CY Aveni, Anthony F. (editor) The Lines of the Nazca American Philosophical Society, 1990 Keywords: symbolic landscaping, prehistoric, ancient, South America Comment: Includes a photo mosaic of the lines that Aveni studied. SD Aveni, Anthony F. (editor) World Archaeoastronomy University of Cambridge Press, 1989 Keywords: archaeoastronomical observatories, cosmology, prehistoric, ancient, world survey Bain, George Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction [-], 1951, facsimile reprint by Dover Publications, 1972, 160 pp, hundreds of b&w illustrations, LC 73-75875, ISBN 0-486-22923-8 Keywords: patterns, spirals, petroglyphs, labyrinths, prehistoric, ancient, medieval, Europe Comment: Contains one "labyrinth symbol" which is a unicursal form, said to be from the Book of Kells. TL Comment: Beautiful (and often copied) drawings of 225 Pictish and Celtic spiral and knot patterns, showing the step-by-step geometric construction that underlies them. CY Bakhtiar, Ardalan and Laleh The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture University of Chicago Press, 1973, 1979, ISBN 0-226-02560-8 Keywords: houses of worship, religious iconography, Middle East Bancroft, Anne Origins of the Sacred: The Spiritual Journey in Western Tradition Arkana/Routledge and Kegan Paul/Methuen, 1967, 201 pp Keywords: megaliths, mounds, petroglyphs, houses of worship, funerary-cemetery-burial sites, archaeoastronomical observatories, labyrinths, symbolic landscaping, religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, religious iconography, prehistoric, ancient, medieval, Europe, Greece, Rome Comment: Despite the new-agey-sounding title, this is a well-written (but, sadly, unillustrated) survey of the religious practices of prehistoric and early historic European cultures; Bancroft deftly integrates archaeoastronomy, funerary architecture, shamanism, and myth into the larger context of sacred endeavor; the book also contains an excellent bibliography. CY Barnsley, Michael Fractals Everywhere Keywords: natural proportion Bauval, Robert and Gilbert, Adrian. The Orion Mystery New York: Crown, 1994, 325 pp Keywords: houses of worship, funerary-cemetery-burial sites, archaeoastronomical observatories, symbolic landscaping, metrology, religion, myth, cosmology, religious iconography, ancient, Egypt Comment: Controversial new theories regarding a revised date for the construction of the Sphinx at Giza and its archaeoastronomical relationship to the Great Pyramid. CY Comment: 236 pages of text, guest appearance by Rudolph Gatenbrink, 7 appendices, notes, bibliography, index, 16 b&w photographs, and numerous drawings. JCP Beardsley, John Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists Abbeville Press, 1995, 223 pp., colour illustrations Keywords: vernacular architecture, symbolic landscaping, modern, North America Comment: Discusses the Garden of Eden in Lucas, Kansas. SS Bicknell, Marjorie and Hoggatt, Verner E. Jr. [eds.] A Primer for the Fibonacci Numbers The Fibonacci Association, 1973 Keywords: natural proportion, ratio, golden section, spirals Comment: A collection of articles from the early (1963-1973) issues of "The Fibonacci Quarterly" on the Fibonacci numbers and related sequences in a variety of mathematical areas and in nature. Problems and solutions. More extensive than the material in Hoggatt's "Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers." PB Comment: see under Hoggatt for related material. CY Blackwell, William Geometry in Architecture Key Curriculum Press, 1984, LC 83-10281, ISBN 1-55953-018-9 Keywrods: natural proportion, patterns, ratio, golden section, spirals, polygons, polyhedra, links between geometry-music-architecture Comment: Reviews the timeless geometric relationships that govern architectural design. Filled with beautiful illustrations. Discusses applications of the fundamental laws of harmony, symmetry and order in the creation of forms and patterns. MZ Bouleau, Charles The Painter's Secret Geometry: A Study of Composition in Art originally published in French as Charpentres, La Geometrie Secrete des Peintres, English translation by Jonathan Griffin Editions du Seuil, 1963; Thames & Hudson/Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963, 268 pp, b&w illustrations Keywords: ratio, golden section, Pythagoras, geometry in art-music-architecture, medieval, renaissance, modern, Europe Comment: Hundreds of works of art retrospectively analyzed in order to determine the principles of geometric construction underlying them. CY Bord, Janet Mazes and Labyrinths of the World Dutton, 1975, ISBN 0-525-47441-2 Keywords: petroglyphs, labyrinths, symbolic landscaping, prehistoric, ancient, religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, religious iconography, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, world survey Comment: A picture book; has some good pictures and information hard to get elsewhere. TL Bord, J. and Bord, C. Earth Rites [-]. 1982 Bord, J. and Bord, C. The Secret Country [-], 1978 Bosman, Leonard The Meaning and Philosophy of Numbers Rider and Company, 1974, ISBN 0-09-119271-4 Keywords: cosmology, number symbolism Comment: Spiritual analysis of numbers by a Theosophist who discusses the implications of each number from one to ten, showing that they represent cosmic and creative processes. Incorporates information from ancient Egypt and Greece. MZ Bragdon, Claude The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Lectures on Theosophy and Architecture Alfred A. Knopf, 1910, 1922; 2nd Edition, George Routledge and Sons, 1922, 111 pp, b&w illustrations Keywords: natural proportion, patterns, ratio, golden section, spirals, polygons, polyhedra, Pythagoras, Fibonacci, geometry in art-music-architecture, religion, religious iconography, number symbolism, ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, Asia, Europe, Greece, Rome Comment: One of Bragdon's most generally accessible works; beautifully illustrated with Bragdon's detailed renderings, it deals primarily with the latent geometry and the sacred Platonic underpinnings of his approach to art deco architecture and acknowledges his debt to the work of Jay Hambidge. CY Bragdon, Claude The New Image Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, 190 pp, b&w illustrations Keywords: natural proportion, patterns, ratio, golden section, spirals, polygons, polyhedra, Pythagoras, Fibonacci, geometry in art-music-architecture, religion, religious iconography, number symbolism, ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, Asia, Europe, Greece, Rome Comment: Contains an important explanation of Bragdon's theories relating architecture to music via their common basis in geometric ratio and proportion, with many lovely architectural renderings by Bragdon. CY Bragdon, Claude A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension; To Which Is Added Man the Square: A Higher Space Parable Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, 81 pp, b&w illustrations Keywords: polygons, polyhedra, religion, cosmology, number symbolism, magic squares, modern, North America Comment: This is one of Bragdon's Theosophically-inclined works on geometry; it is not a practical book on architectural design. The illustrations are more diagrammatic than usual for Bragdon, CY Bragdon, Claude Projective Ornament The Manas Press, 1915, 79 pp, b& w illustrations, colour frontispiece Keywords: patterns, polygons, polyhedra, geometry in art-music-architecture, number symbolism, modern, North America Comment: How to use plane projections of regular polygons to create art deco architectural friezes; similar to the work of Edward B. Edwards, but with far stronger symbolic intent. Contains many beautiful illustrations by the author. CY Brennan, M. The Stars and the Stones Thames and Hudson, 1983 Brown, John Gary Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art From America's Heartland University Press of Kansas, 1994, 246 pp, numerous b&w photos, ISBN 0-7006-0634-3 Keywords: funerary-cemetery-burial sites, vernacular architecture, symbolic landscaping, religion, myth, folklore, religious iconography, freemasonic symbolism, sacred site tourism, modern, North America Comment: A well-photographed survey of American vernacular, oddball, figural, and symbolic grave markers of the 19th and 20th centuries; includes memorials whose iconography relates to the Freemasons, Oddfellows, Woodmen of the World, and other fraternal orders. CY Brown, Peter Lancaster Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology Blandford Press, 1976; Taplinger Publishing, 1976; Harper Colophon, 1978, 324 pp, 142 b&w illustrations, ISBN 0-06-090578-6 [Harper Colophon pbk] Keywords: megaliths, mounds, petroglyphs, houses of worship, funerary-cemetery-burial sites, archaeoastronomical observatories, labyrinths, symbolic landscaping, ley lines, religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, metrology, religious iconography, prehistoric, ancient, world survey Comment: A technically dense history of archaeoastronomical theory, with particular reference to Britain and Egypt; the author presents solid evidence for ancient astronomical knowledge and supports the metrological work of Alexander Thom while gently deriding John Michell for his over-reliance on number symbolism. CY Bruns, Toms The Secrets of Ancient Geometry and Its Use Rhodos, 1967, 2 vols, 331 + 252 pp, 381 plates Keywords: natural proportion, patterns, ratio, golden section, spirals, polygons, polyhedra, Pythagoras, Fibonacci, geometry in art-music-architecture, ancient Bryant, Page The Earth Changes Survival Handbook Sun Books, 1983 Bryant, Page Terravision: A Traveler's Guide to the Living Planet Earth Ballantine Books, 1991 Keywords: natural sacred sites, archaeoastronomical observatories, ley lines, feng shui, religion, sacred site tourism, ancient, medieval, renaissance, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America Burckhardt, Titus Sacred Art in East and West: Its Principles and Methods originally published in French as Princep et Methodes de L'Art Sacre English translation by Lord Northbourne Paul Derain, 1958; 1st U.K. ed. 1967; Perennial Books Ltd., 1977, 1986, 160 pp, b&w illustrations, ISBN 0-900588-11-X Keywords: geometry in art-music-architecture, houses of worship, funerary-cemetery-burial sites, labyrinths, symbolic landscaping, religion, myth, cosmology, religious iconography, freemasonic symbolism, number symbolism, medieval, renaissance, Asia, Europe, Middle East Comment: A valuable general introduction to the subject of sacred art around the world. CY Burl, Aubrey The Stone Circles of the British Isles Yale University, 1976, 7th printing, 1989, 410 pp, LC 75-43311, ISBN 0-300-02398-7 Keywords: megaliths, archaeoastronomical observatories, symbolic landscaping, prehistoric, Europe Comment: Contains a good bibliography. KO Burl, Aubrey Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual Shire, 1983 Keywords: megaliths, archaeoastronomical observatories, symbolic landscaping, prehistoric, Europe Burl, Aubrey Prehistoric Avebury Yale University, 1979 Keywords: megaliths, archaeoastronomical observatories, symbolic landscaping, prehistoric, Europe Burl, Aubrey Rings of Stone Frances Lincoln, 1979 Keywords: megaliths, archaeoastronomical observatories, symbolic landscaping, prehistoric, Europe Butler, Christopher Number Symbolism Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, ISBN 0-7100-6766-6 Keywords: medieval, renaissance, religion, cosmology, number symbolism, modern, world survey Comment: Traces the history of numerological allegory from its beginnings in Greece and its appearance in the Bible, to its effect upon the philosophical and scientific thought of the Renaissance. Butler believes numerological tradition has three main elements-a cosmological science of creation according to numbers, a belief that the numbers of the Bible had an allegorical significance, and a symbolic arithmology connected with magic, the occult, and astrology. A serious study for all interested in a deep understanding of the meaning of numbers. MZ [there is supposed to be a "Pt. 3: C-D' also] --------------------------------------------- This document is Copyright (c) 1996, authors cited. All rights reserved. Permission to distribute the collection is hereby granted providing that distribution is electronic, no money is involved, reasonable attempts are made to use the latest version and all credits and this copyright notice are maintained. Other requests for distribution should be directed to the individual authors of the particular articles. nagasiva, tyagi tyagI@houseofkaos.Abyss.coM (I@AM)