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Abaton
Abaton (Greek, "inaccessible"): a restricted sacred precinct housing a mythical tomb of Osiris, chiefly the Abaton of Biggeh opposite Philae, regulated by the Abaton Decree carved on Hadrian's Door, with ritual prohibitions and Isis's boat processions.
Eumachia Building
The Eumachia Building, or Portico of Concordia Augusta (VII.9.1), is the largest structure flanking Pompeii's forum, built at her own expense around AD 2-3 by the public priestess Eumachia and dedicated to Concordia Augusta and Pietas.
Hawaiian wahi pana tradition
Wahi pana (Hawaiian for "storied places") is the Native Hawaiian tradition of celebrated legendary sites, from temples to sacred stones, that carry history, spirituality, and identity through oral histories.
Kumano Sanzan
Kumano Sanzan (熊野三山) is the collective name for the three grand Kumano shrines in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, major pilgrimage destinations inscribed by UNESCO in 2004.
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma (Pannonhalmi Bencés Főapátság): Benedictine archabbey in western Hungary founded in 996 by Prince Géza, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996, criteria (iv) and (vi), 47.4 ha, with Hungary's oldest library and first Hungarian-language document.
Naggalabi Coronation Site
Naggalabi Coronation Site, also written Naggalabi Buddo or Nagalabi, is the hill in Buddo, Wakiso District, Uganda, where the Buganda Kingdom crowns its kabaka (king); Kabaka Mutebi II was crowned there in 1993.
Nan Madol
Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016, is a complex of over 100 basalt-and-coral artificial islets off Pohnpei, capital of the Saudeleur dynasty, built from the 10th to 15th centuries and currently on the danger list.
Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
The Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Kenya's coast, inscribed in 2008, made up of ten sacred forests of the Mijikenda people.
San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries
San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries (Monasterios de San Millán de Yuso y Suso), La Rioja, Spain: twin World Heritage monasteries (1997) founded at the 6th-century hermitage of Saint Millán, birthplace of written Spanish via the Glosas Emilianenses.