ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

elationship with the religious landscape of a location. They defined sacred areas, createdsanctuaries and temples, and buried their ancestors in cemeteries (Figure 4.2, A).Through paying ritual attention to these places, the locals claimed the landscape anddefined themselves by it.Community built throughcommon worship?A: Create amworship atrural shrinesB: Adaptationof worship tonew custom(at least sharedworship)C: Respect for/introduction ofnew gods, newplaces, newprocessionsD: Monumentalization ofsome sanctuaries,E: syncretism with Romangods,F: introduction of Romanmodes of worshipReligious LandscapeIncludes Sanctuaries, Temples and GodsFigure 4.2: Religious Landscape Model of the Colonial TriangleWhen colonization entered the picture, the colonial commissioners defined whatspace would be sacred for the new community. 15As the colonists lived within thelandscape, they introduced some of their own gods, but also adopted some local deities(Figure 4.2, C, E, and F). 16 In turn, the local population adapted to the new modes of15 Thus, in the analysis of specific sites, wherever there is a suggestion that a commissioner or other humanelement affected the religious landscape, this will be presented as an extension of the triangle. For many ofthe colonies, however, either no commissioners are known or it is impossible to tell if a cult was the directresult of action by a commissioner. This is why commissioners are left out of the generalized model.16 Therefore, in this model, deities are treated as a fixed part of the landscape, just as in the Appian passagediscussed above.155