An altar, is a structure created for the human-divine exchange. It is here that the God to whom the architectural structure is dedicated, to please him is fulfilled a sacrifice. This will propitiate favors for those who fulfill it and dedicate it to such deity. The cleansing fire is the element that burning the object or the animal makes it lose its material corporality and going through a process of spiritual transformation can come as an offering to the kingdom of the deities.

Types of Altars

Subliminal Altar: It is a space in the home of the person where he gathers valuable things for himself, sometimes it is not properly an altar visible or represented as such, but it serves the purpose of one.

Altar of integration: It is a place usually a temple where one seeks a connection with the spirit, or the deity.

Altar of Healing: Here it is implored that the deity cures some evil that the person presents, whether physical or mental.

Ancestral Altar: In this altar style, past generations of individuals, their relatives who have already died, are venerated.

Spiritual Altar: In this type of altar it is sought to deepen the spiritual or divine connection of the individual.

Altars of manifestation: This type of shrine is filled with things that represent what is asked of the deity to reach the individual, giving a sacrifice and obtaining some benefit, be it of love, abundance, fertility, creativity, etc.

The Ara Pacis is a representation in marble of what is called Templum minus (Temple minor or provisional). The temples with this characteristic were demarcated with a wooden palisade, depicted inside the walls (11 by 10 meters) that bound the sacred terrain, and that welcomed inside the altar. The monument, today still existing, has doors in the east and west walls. The walls are raised on a pedestal and accessed inside by a staircase located on the west side.

The monument in question is a representation of the work of beautification and renovation of the Roman capital. In this sense, the altar is one of the most representative buildings of the Golden Age Augustea, this being a lasting of the work not only of the almost immortal marble, but of the vivid colors that it presented in its time of splendor.

ARA PACIS

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