Abstract

Some places seem furnished by nature with holiness. The Temple of Apollo at Delphi in central Greece is one of them. There, on a precipitous slope of Mt. Parnassos, high above the gorge of the Pleistos River and the Bay of Krisa, the Apollo temple occupied a forest glade next to the spring Kastalia, beneath the shining rocks that glimmered in the morning and evening sun. Even today, tourists find Delphi a place of luminous natural beauty and of transparent holiness, and so had the ancient Greeks and their ancestors far back into prehistoric times,.

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