*Ø* Blogmanac | Burning Man festival a focus for parties, religious yearning
"Rising from the desert in one of the flattest, most remote places on earth is an 80-foot temple topped by the stylized figure of a man.
"It wasn't here last week and it won't be here after Saturday night, except for a pile of ashes where it is to be ritually burned to the ground.
"In one of the most bizarre rites of the Silicon Age, nearly 30,000 people are camped in the middle of the Nevada desert 90 miles north of Reno to build and then destroy a temporary city built around a religious icon."
Source
The Burning Man Project
"Rising from the desert in one of the flattest, most remote places on earth is an 80-foot temple topped by the stylized figure of a man.
"It wasn't here last week and it won't be here after Saturday night, except for a pile of ashes where it is to be ritually burned to the ground.
"In one of the most bizarre rites of the Silicon Age, nearly 30,000 people are camped in the middle of the Nevada desert 90 miles north of Reno to build and then destroy a temporary city built around a religious icon."
Source
The Burning Man Project
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