Sacred Spaces In Ancient Greece

In ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, and in the Minoan civilizations, they all used different thing for their use of sacred spaces. In ancient Greece they mad large palaces to appease the Greek gods and goddess. In ancient Egypt they used different techniques to appease the Egyptian gods and goddess. In the Minoan civilization they too also practice religious things however they do something that both Greece and Egypt do not, which is human sacrifices. They all use buildings to show/appease their gods and goddess.

In the case of ancient Greece, things like the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia how their devotion to the Greek gods and goddess. Greek mythology is very important to them and many things are written
The death gods, iris and Osiris, are all to be please before the person can go over to the next life. In their death rituals, they used different techniques to show their power. A sacred place is usually their tomb, and the person usually isn’t just buried with the family they are buried with many other things. Gold, jewelry, sacrifices, and other things will all to believe to help them go over to the other side to meet the god of death/after world, Osiris. They want to appease him so they can have a great afterlife. One example or I should say many examples are the relics we have seen come from the pyramids. They are all grand gestures toward death, and the artifacts in the tombs would have thought to help the individual into the afterlife. They symbols and the words on the walls of these tombs also to show the message of spiritually that they believe in. in King Tuts tomb, his mask shows his grandeur in even after life. Overall Egyptians sacred places are in the afterlife and the tombs to hold the dead
Although there really isn’t any temples to show their sacred places, in a site called Anemospilia, it has shown that the people used human sacrifices to show appeasement towards their gods. I though originally that the Aztecs and Mayans were the two really only places who practiced human sacrifices however I learned they used it too. They used it to appease their gods for different things but mostly for the positives that will come in the future like their crop and other