Model ~ Eliade

Eliade believed that everything went to a point using ladders and steps to get closer to heaven. He used the term Axis Mundi which he translated as the center of the earth to which the ladders went to heaven and hell. At first I did not understand what he was thinking, lots of building and churches have points on them but I always figured that it was just the style of design. After hearing examples in class and then thinking about it later on there are too many things that go up to a point or are up on a hill that are religious of some sort to be a coincidence. It amazed me to now look at something like a church and know why they put it on top of a hill or that there is a certain element to it that points up because now I know it is trying to be closer to heaven.