Burning Man 2002
The Mausoleum
"Temple of Joy"

For two years Burning Man has featured a structure called the Mausoleum, which is a jigsaw pagoda of great beauty and meaning for the BMers. For the Mausoleum is personal it allows you to walk inside, and to inscribe the names of ones lost. The Mausoleum is then burned on Sunday night, one day after the Man. It then goes into the afterlife, along with those whose names it carries, and becomes a Temple. This year the Mausoleum was the Temple of Joy. We did not feel it carried the same meaning as last year's Temple of Tears, and while beautiful Galen and I did not like the design at all. It was open, so you could pass through, you could also sit inside it, and we felt this all lead people to hold it in less respect. We were not drawn to be there when it burned, instead we kept to ourselves.

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