His name is long vanished, but his bones still defy time. He was a chief and buried by his villagers high atop a hill. He was mourned, remembered, and worshipped. Temples were built and rebuilt over his body while his identity and story faded. Maybe he was a great man; or maybe he was a feared man? Perchance he was a wise man, or simply a human with kind, compassionate eyes?
Today his burial site is still worshipped, in an unbroken lineage going back two thousand years. Today he lies underneath the Cathedral of Geneva, right under the altar area.
Chance, perhaps; or perhaps not?
(Geneva, Switzerland; December 2013)
This blue marble 
February 9, 2014 at 12:22 am
Was the temple he was buried in originally Christian or Pagan? Do they have an idea what peoples he came from?
February 9, 2014 at 9:33 am
In my understanding it was pagan since christianity reached Geneva later. He is assumed to have been Allobrogian, a people of Celtic origin.
February 9, 2014 at 9:35 am
Cool. I wasn’t sure if the 2000 years was literal or not. Fascinating!
February 9, 2014 at 1:02 pm
It is! And actually the theory goes that HE was the reason the worship began. First his burial mound was worshipped, and later a temple was built. Later generations continued to build new temples probably not knowing why the first one was built.