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https://doi.org/10.17234/SEC.37.4
Vitomir Belaj and Vincent Scully
Vladimir P. Goss
Sažetak
In 2013, Yale University professor of architectural history Vincent T. Scully (1927–2020) reprinted the book The Earth, the Temple and the Gods (Zemlja, hramovi i bogovi). The book explores how the Greek temple originated through the interaction of the concepts of “Earth” – the universal locus of the creative act, “Gods” – the spirit embodied in space, and the “temple” – the tangible creative result of the encounter between spirit and space. In 2007, Croatian cultural anthropologist Vitomir Belaj published A Walk through the Year (Hod kroz godinu), a work rooted in the research of Russian scholars Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov and Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov, as well as in Andrej Pleterski’s studies of tripartite formations in the landscape of Alpine Slavs. The Slavic tripartite formation has a visual and conceptual core that remains essentially unchanged. It symbolizes community structure and confirms its ideology. At first glance, this is also Scully’s temenos, a sacred space that affirms the tangible presence of gods within the landscape. Every temple results from adaptation to its original site and the nature of the deity it houses. From this, what is uniquely “Greek” emerges – without fixed forms – tripartite or otherwise. One can say that a relationship is formed that varies from place to place, yet remains fundamentally the same. Among the Croats, there is a reflection of a tradition rooted in a harsh, cool agricultural homeland that retained certain northern elements even after migration. Settling around the warm Aegean, the Greeks became much more “Mediterranean.” The land was more pleasant and hospitable, life was easier, and there was more time for “beautiful activities.” In this context, Belaj’s triangles and Scully’s visions clearly mirror some of the essential characteristics of these two cultural groups – without denying the fact that in both cases, “the Earth came first.”
Ključne riječi
Vitomir Belaj; Vincent Scully; triangular structures; Greek temple; cultural landscape; early Slavic architecture
Hrčak ID:
342812
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2025.
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