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The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous
Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium
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Explores Byzantine perceptions of creation and different types of natural environments, and the principles underpinning such perceptions.