Step back in time at Mnajdra Temple for Autumnal Equinox
Sept. 22, 2015 - Mnajdra Temple is unique in the world as the only full calendar temple, people can experience the solstices or the equinox in a way that prehistoric people once did. The problem is that it takes imagination and knowledge to understand what this type of place meant and what it took to construct a building of this size with this kind of calendar ability.
As our guide pointed out, Mnajdra lines up with the sunlight penetrating certain places only at specific times. In order for the sun to hit the points in the temple, the people who built it had to plan the building after watching the sun for an entire year.
The effect of the sun entering into a chamber that has no roof in place is pretty spectacular. Imagining what it would have been like when the temple was in complete darkness or only lit by fire makes the experience even better.
While there are people who do not find the solstice, equinox or the effects that they have on the temple to be spiritual, there are others who take the time to get in tune with those who came long before modern humans had all the answers and science solved all of the questions. They use these places to reconnect with a part of themselves that is not only important but also vital to the continued existence of human beings.
No one really knows what these buildings were used for, but there should be nothing wrong with someone wanting to explore the feelings that such a place might have generated in mankind’s ancestors, especially when it helps release the tension that modern man feels when the world is at odds with the prehistoric man in us all. (See photos below.)
As our guide pointed out, Mnajdra lines up with the sunlight penetrating certain places only at specific times. In order for the sun to hit the points in the temple, the people who built it had to plan the building after watching the sun for an entire year.
The effect of the sun entering into a chamber that has no roof in place is pretty spectacular. Imagining what it would have been like when the temple was in complete darkness or only lit by fire makes the experience even better.
While there are people who do not find the solstice, equinox or the effects that they have on the temple to be spiritual, there are others who take the time to get in tune with those who came long before modern humans had all the answers and science solved all of the questions. They use these places to reconnect with a part of themselves that is not only important but also vital to the continued existence of human beings.
No one really knows what these buildings were used for, but there should be nothing wrong with someone wanting to explore the feelings that such a place might have generated in mankind’s ancestors, especially when it helps release the tension that modern man feels when the world is at odds with the prehistoric man in us all. (See photos below.)