Hello Holly,

if a voodoo temple can be included as sacred site , wow!!!!, and perfectly so, because the beliefs of all should be included, I think one very small addition here will not, in any way, disrupt your very magnificent and huge compendium of the sacred sites of the world, honestly I mean every word.

Although there has been considerable debate whether this religion, that figures in the link, is the first monotheistic religion, this is not important, ..................what is, instead, unexampled, are its unique principles now being "discovered" by scholars..................... its principles of freedom of choice, given to every human being, to be excercised intelligently, rather than faith or blind submission; its perceptions of God as a pure Being incapable of harm as opposed to other angry Gods and visions of impeding doom ; its great reverence for all the elements of nature; its understanding of evil as personalised as the Hostile Ignorant "Mind" that will be eventually destroyed, its distruction ensured by its very nature(!!!) (the destruction of evil, logically also results in the renewal of this world, not its destructiont!!!) ; its perceptions of night being the absence of light, equally, evil the absence of good, its insistance that Righteousness and righteous living in this world leads to illumination, surely merit its inclusion in your list.

I am very sure you are a scholar, or researcher..............so I am very sure you will welcome this very small addition.

Regards and with my congratulations to you for your superb compilation.

the complete Zoroastrian sacred and secular literature here.


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