Janaki Jambunathan
Active member
This temple is buit to be burnt on 21 March!
From this Saturday, March 14th, people are being invited to visit the Temple at the Top of the Hill on the Waterside to view the construction and also, if they want, to leave letters, cards, mementoes and other personal “offerings” to be consumed in the fire.
Healing and closure
Best believes such a ritual can provide “healing of the soul” and wonders will people who were involved in the Troubles engage with the project. “If you suffer from torment, grief, distress or guilt, this is one way of putting all that to rest,” he says. “Maybe somebody who did something like, say, putting a bomb in somebody’s house and were sorry, might leave something in the Temple to be set alight – it will help them get a form of closure.”
He says the response so far in Derry has been 99 per cent positive, although a small minority “thinks we are just a bunch of hippies wasting our time”.
Derry prepares for symbolic ?Burning Man? fire ceremony
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