Sacred Heights in the Topography of Flatlands: Ovaa Kurgans in the Kalmyk Buddhist Landscape
By Valeria Gazizova
39 pagesContinuously enfolding the lives, activities, values and times of all its previous inhabitants, the landscape is simultaneously unfolding to its current inhabitant or observer as a corpus of heterogeneous narratives – myths, legends, historical accounts or individual life-histories attached to it. […] ‘Landscape is time materializing.’