Translations:Observances, Festivals, and Holy Months/4/en

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For modern practitioners there are no shrines or temples to visit however you could visit places you consider sacred. The idea that certain spaces (because of their great height, beauty, lush vegetation etc) are occupied by divinities is very ancient, and there were many such places in Arabia. Sanctuaries would be open-air, the natural features of the spot were enough to distinguish it. It might be a spring with rich vegetation, a patch of forest or a shady cleft in a mountainside. Other than pilgrimages there were also seasonal offerings such as libation in this inscription: "he made a libation during the cosmical setting/full moon of Gemini."