ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aim is to raise questions of interest to the people than to answer them. The idea of the spatial orientation of the state is in itself strange and requires an explanation, especially as the reference is not to any political orientation, not to an orientation in terms of the political goals of society or the ruler. What the author would dare claim, in connection with the methodology of the study of sacred space, or hierotopia, is that, in the case of a large tribal formation, the state, or prestate, has significant spatial parameters. It is a sacred organism that unites into an integral whole the protective divinity, the nation, the ruler, and the land within a sanctified space that is “oriented” according to the absolute, and religious, criteria and can thereby encompass and give meaning to its component parts. .
