Talk:Kadisha Valley
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[edit] Scale of Map
The map would be much improved if it had a scale.Duncan.france (talk) 10:12, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] ref
Plz cite refs Elie plus (talk) 14:03, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mythological feel to the article
I stumbled across this article a few days ago and was quite delighted by its content. It is certainly a nice start. However, the article has somewhat of a "mythological" feel to it and is difficult to understand for a person not familiar with Lebanon and this region. To remedy this, I am hoping to do some editing to make it feel more encyclopedic and to better introduce some elements in the article that seem to be considered by the original authors to be common knowledge. Just thought I would forewarn. Jhml (talk) 19:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- I don't see really what you call a mythological feel: style, choice of words, ideas, historical context ... Could you please specify for the non-expert reader what is your definition of mythology (illustrated possibly by examples)? Thank you.youcroft (talk) 22:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- I would hardly call my opinion expert, and I meant no offense in what I wrote earlier. I should have, in hindsight, qualified my use of the word "mythological", as there were really two instances (and not the entire article) that led me to use that word. I think it is a lack of explanation about the phrases/sentences concerned that gave me that "feeling" about them. The phrase and sentence concerned are these:
- (under Description): "from its source in a cave a little way below the sacred cedars."
- (under Holy Christian Site): "It is also here that the Holy River, Nahr Qadisha, flows, its source being in a sacred mountain celebrated in the Scriptures."
- Now, I do not question the truth of these statements or of any of the information in the article, but the italicized sections of the above just felt like they didn't quite flow with the rest of the text. In the first case, a possible revision would be to replace "sacred cedars" with "Forest of the Cedars of God" (assuming those are the sacred cedars referred to). In the second sentence, specifying the mountain's name and perhaps even the place in the Holy Bible (assuming it is the Christian Scriptures referred to here, though I don't know what else is called by that name) that mentions that mountain would serve to clarify the sentence and remove some of what I thought was a "mythological" feeling. Jhml (talk) 20:14, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
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- In regards to the article as a whole, I think the information contained is very good and the topic is interesting. I have the following (hopefully constructive) comments, however. There seems to be an amount of repetition (there are three places with information concerning the Forest of the Cedars of God or Cedars of Lebanon), and some themes (such as the valley's use as a shelter for Christian groups throughout the centuries and its importance as a stronghold of Christian monasticism) kind of sprang on me as I read, and I think they could have been (very) briefly introduced in the intro to the article. Jhml (talk) 20:25, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
