"the European Reformation of the sixteenth century involved a fundamental reorientation of access to the sacred"
similar to the "reformations" around Hopewell in pre-Colombian Americas (the "reformation of mathematical priciples underlying the creation of complex geometrical earthworks which captured the sacred in spatial form"
"such reformations determined who could and could not partake of a sacred power encapsulated in stories and myths, encoded on the one hand as complex layers of scripture (the Old and New Testaments and other holy books), and on the other as a network of landscape monuments"