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FourWinds
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Well yes ...
Jul 31, 2003, 12:26
By taking X amount of points and joing them with a pilgramage we are creating a 'ritual landscape' - a landscape linked with ritual.

These patterns do not just involve turning up at certain places via any means. You can't take the high road while everyone else takes the low road. The whole route is part of the pilgramage - every step you take towards the next stop is part of it.

You have to follow a predefined set of stages and a predefined route. Different individual rituals occur at each station, but the whole journey is a ritual that is the sum of its parts, and the paths between these parts are also parts.

Just because I am talking about a Catholic pilgramage here doesn't mean that it's only 900 years old. In fact its use of rock outcrops, wells, tombs and standing stones throws it back at least 2000 years (which is pre-Xtianity in Ireland obviously).

The path to enlightenment is far more rewarding than enlightenment itself!
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