Elephant Puppet Looks At The Monument
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A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance. Some of the first monuments were dolmens or menhirs, megalithic constructions built for religious or funerary purposes. The word "monument" comes the Latin "monumentum", derived from the word moneo, monere (comparable to the Greek mnemosynon) which means 'to remind', 'to advise' or 'to warn';[3] similarly, the Albanian word 'mani men' in Albanian language means 'remember', suggesting a monument allows us to see the past thus helping us visualize what is to come in the future. In English the word "monumental" is often used in reference to something of extraordinary size and power, as in monumental sculpture, but also to mean simply anything made to commemorate the dead, as a funerary monument or other example of funerary art.