• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    When it comes to buildings like this, I always wanna know what genius looked at a cliff face and said, “yeah, that looks like a great place to put a monastery.”

    • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      It doesn’t seem that much of a stretch when you know that monks originated as hermit who tried to live ascetic lifestyles, often by retreating to caves far away from civilisation. This is just an evolution of that.