Topos vs Chora
One of the topics brought up in landscapes of the sacred that was especially interesting to me was the distinction between topos and Chora. Topos is the spiritual place but just the actual physical location of the place with no meaning attached to it. Chora is the spirituality of the place and what it means to people. This distinction is really established in the person visiting the place. For instance, you could visit a spiritual place and have no idea and it would not effect you at all, this is only using the Topos of the location. When you realize its significance and fell it thats when the Chora of the place affects you as well. It is a very distinct difference about the same place.
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