An art director in an ad agency, he creates a different shrine each year.
Bowra argues that Orion was believed to have delivered oracles as well, probably at a different shrine.
But until this one Saturday, I had been living in a different world, of shrines, horse-drawn-carriage rides through ancient ruins and boat trips through floating villages.
BUT, I'd argue that to see the shrine at different times of day could be enlightening.
This, of course, is the much debated Cyrus Cylinder, which says that, aided by the chief Babylonian god Marduk, Cyrus ("King of the universe, the great king") captured Babylon without a fight, repatriated deported people living in Babylonian exile, and, as the museum put it in 2010, "restored shrines dedicated to different gods".
With great effort, Fela's survivors have built a New Africa Shrine in a different area of Lagos.
In keeping with Shinto's polytheist and animist traditions, each shrine venerates a different god embodied by a sacred object of worship.
Her home was also a shrine to a different era, with memorabilia and family photos spanning the decades.
Fifty kilometres along the train route from Kandy lies the path to Sri Pada, a holy shrine of a much different nature.
Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India travel to the shrine for the annual festival, marking the anniversary of the saint's death.
