Hilary Sheppard - The Ordinary as Mask of the Holy and Lane's 3rd Axiom

Lane explains that ordinary can often times mask the holy and that when we look closely, ordinary can become extraordinary. This is attached to the idea that landscape and nature that can be seen as ordinary, such as a valley or a rock, can actually be holy. With this idea comes the fact that people see these landscapes in different ways. One person may see a simple waterfall and another may see this waterfall as the birth place of the universe. The notion that the ordinary as mask of the holy makes people see things differently relates to Lane's third axiom. This axiom states that sacred place can be tred upon without being entered. Similar to the whole mask theory idea, this states that while some people may thing a place is sacred or holy, someone else may walk right past or through it and never notice. Both help to explain how a place can be sacred to some people and meaningless to others, which gives us a better understanding of what sacred place truly is.