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Meaning of "Genii Loci" (1 Viewer)
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mr_brightside
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Genii Loci is a place of significant spiritual significance or the spirit of that place.
Eg.
"Uluru's Genii Loci is very important to the Aboriginal people."
Eg.
"Uluru's Genii Loci is very important to the Aboriginal people."
TerrbleSpellor
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The FEELING of the place.
Mountain.Dew
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a "presence" or "feeling" we all seek to find, to achieve spiritual enligthenment.
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From http://www.anagnosis.gr/index.php?pageID=116&la=eng:
Local Spirits (genii loci)
The spirits which were believed to inhabit natural features of the landscape, such as springs and caves were the foundation of ancient religious belief. In many parts of Greece they have survived in folk belief into the twenty-first century.
Local Spirits (genii loci)
The spirits which were believed to inhabit natural features of the landscape, such as springs and caves were the foundation of ancient religious belief. In many parts of Greece they have survived in folk belief into the twenty-first century.
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The term "Genii Loci" is also a term found in Russian vernacular, and can be roughly translated as "Whale's Penis". Although this probably wasnt the intended meaning of Shirley Geok-lin Lim, unless she was writing some sort of bizarre absurdist peice. but i guess in this post structuralist world it can be infered as that. happy studying
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too much anchorman?bede007 said:
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By the beard of Zeus, agreed!RideTheLightnin said:
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I know it was a while ago, but this might help you out. It's a one of the texts I'm studying for Inner Journeys, by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, called "The Town Where Time Stands Still". Here's an extract:
"Travellers through the centuries have threaded their baser motives of profit and pleasure with a subtler, and sometimes even unconscious, compulsion - the search for the genii loci. In the purer realm of travel, which has nothing to do with vacations, humans hope to be moved rather than to move. They seek an external geography that will act on their internal psychology like an irresistible force, so that they will return to the place from which they came blessed and altered."
"Travellers through the centuries have threaded their baser motives of profit and pleasure with a subtler, and sometimes even unconscious, compulsion - the search for the genii loci. In the purer realm of travel, which has nothing to do with vacations, humans hope to be moved rather than to move. They seek an external geography that will act on their internal psychology like an irresistible force, so that they will return to the place from which they came blessed and altered."
