Editing Oberto Airaudi (section)

== Biography ==
Oberto Airaudi was born in the town of [[Balangero]], near [[Turin]], [[Italy]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Damanhur Timeline |url=https://damanhur.org/damanhur-timeline/ |website=Damanhur Timeline}}</ref>

In 1975, Airaudi and a group of about 25 other people founded the "Horus Center" in Turin, and later the Federation of Damanhur, a [[New Age]] commune and [[eco-village]]. Beginning in 1978, Airaudi directed construction of the underground facility the [[Temples of Humankind]]. Initially in secret, the Temples became public knowledge in 1992, when a former member sued to regain his possessions from the group. Prior to founding the community, he had worked as an insurance agent.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stanley|first1=Alessandra|title=Baldissero Canavese Journal; New-Age Commune Is Into Crafts and Time Travel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/26/world/baldissero-canavese-journal-new-age-commune-is-into-crafts-and-time-travel.html|access-date=18 December 2015|work=The New York Times|date=26 July 2000}}</ref>

Airaudi died in the Damanhur community of Aval ([[Cuceglio]]) of colon cancer after it metastasized to his liver.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zoccatelli |first=PierLuigi |date=2016 |title=“All the Heavens in your Hands”: Oberto Airaudi and the Art of Damanhur |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26418552 |journal=Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=145–162 |issn=1092-6690}}</ref>