ABSTRACT
There is little question that all cultures, in their scramble for meaning, invest heavily in sacred images. Each society cultivates concepts of divine power and cosmological structure that hopefully will make sense of it all. The diversity of sacred images is remarkable, and yet each lays claim to unique validity. In essence, each culture asserts that its sacred constructions are true beyond all other claims to divine truth. The essential foundation for belief in the sacred is faith. Because religious concepts lie beyond the boundaries of science, they cannot be validated by ordinary means. They must be assimilated within the context of what is ordinarily referred to as the magical or supernatural.
