granite memorials and stone gods

Parking the car by the side of the bridge, we walk along the winding road beside the river. It is foggy early in the morning. The thick mangrove bushes on the other side of the river are hardly visible through the mist. The river is full in high tide; and yet it is calm with hardly any ripple. At a distance, far off in the river, I can spot the reflection of the cemented graveyard memorial of an unknown person. Yesterday I have seen a red hibiscus flower on the memorial placed there perhaps by the dead person’s wife who lives in the small cottage adjacent to it. As we pass by it there is a mild feeling of sadness and depression in me.
A granite memorial in a cemetery is just a stone. Yet, when one looks at it the stone appears charged with a lot of emotions, depression, fear, sorrow, disgust and sadness. It surfaces also several imageries as well, of bones, ashes, decay, worms, last rites, and even ghosts.
In contrast there is the stone, sculpted or not, in a temple. It can evoke awe, devotion, fear, love, wonder, and reverence. Corresponding imagery also appear. They are automatically posited and attributed.
The mind plays both the tricks, the negative relating to the memorial and the positive relating to the temple stone.
Similar is the case with other ritualistic stones also. They are never neutral, emotionally. But boulders, building stones and similar common stones have bland neutral effect.
Image worship has arisen from this character or ability of the mind to impose emotionally charged attributes on inanimate objects, giving them life, movement and power. After all, all gods are conceptual, created by imagery. Whether it is of the memorial or the temple, all power to the stones comes apparently through the mind from an ultimate source deep behind and beyond