{"id":11019,"date":"2017-10-28T20:56:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=11019"},"modified":"2017-10-30T20:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:48:28","slug":"beginings_belief_garden_design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/beginings_belief_garden_design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginnings of Belief and Garden Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"neil_macgregor_living_gods\"<\/a>With regard to garden design, I’m a great believer in the importance of beliefs – and used the word in the titles a\u00a0book on the history of Asian gardens<\/a>. Neil MacGregor’s Radio 4 series on Living with the Gods <\/a>is therefore of great interest to me.<\/p>\n

In the first episode<\/strong> MacGregor discusses is the Lion Man. This 40,000 year old figurine is interpreted as a representation of man’s relationship with the natural world – which is one of the grand themes in the history of garden design. A question for me is whether the Lion Man\u00a0was made by nomads or whether it was made by a holy man who settled near a cave and a place where he could\u00a0live<\/span>\u00a0without being nomadic.<\/p>\n

In the second\u00a0episode, on\u00a0Fire and State<\/a> MacGregor focuses ‘on sacred fire which comes to represent the state itself’. He discusses the perpetual fire tended by the Vestal Virgins below the Palatine Hill in Rome<\/a>, which\u00a0is in our Garden Finder, and also the\u00a0 Parsi fire temple in Udvada, India, and ‘la Flamme de la Nation’ beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris’.<\/p>\n

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With regard to garden design, I’m a great believer in the importance of beliefs – and used the word in the titles a\u00a0book on the history of Asian gardens. Neil MacGregor’s Radio 4 series on Living with the Gods is therefore of great interest to me. In the first episode MacGregor discusses is the Lion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11031,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019\/revisions\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}