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[QUOTE="Tincatinker, post: 673614, member: 14061"] I'll go very carefully here. I'm sensitive of Forum rules and the sensitivities of many members. Within my own tradition, within the heart of my "tribe" is the necessity, the importance, of undertaking a long journey as a part of becoming one who has earned and is offered respect. That journey should be by foot. The undertaker should be dependent on none but themselves. They should make their way without support from friend, family or tribe. The destination can be of their own choosing and need have no significance other than to themselves but it should have some meaning or value. (Nipping down the pub doesn't count). A shrine might do; or a mountain; a disemboguement; an ending. And the true part of the journey is the return - to friends family and tribe. I know I'm not entirely responding to the OP here; or indeed many members who have posed their own reasons and resolutions but my heart tells me that the purpose of pilgrimage is pilgrimage. It is the journey not the destination. It is the effort not the gain. When we walk on the old roads roads to Santiago's bones, or to [I]Finis Terre[/I] and the sundering sea we are making a journey that has much more to do with ourselves than with any other order of existence. [USER=79736]@Antomuchacho[/USER] asked: Strictly speaking , you can then start your journey from wherever you want in mainland europe?? [I]Nope. You can start your journey from wherever you like on this poor benighted planet. Even Brooklyn.[/I] Are there alberques in holland, germany italy etc? [I]Yes. They just call them something different and they run under different rules.[/I] And are most people doing the camino because of st james remains and reverance within christianity? [I]Probably not, but many are. To be, perhaps, with the remains of one who touched the Divine drives even the unbeliever to hope. [/I](A poorly remembered quote from a source I can't recall) Why did other saints not have the same pilgrimage legacy befall upon them? [I]Oh, but they have. They just haven't achieved World Heritage status yet.[/I] Give them time. My old guys have been around forever and yet there are still but few pilgrims who remember to sprinkle a little salt and spill a little wine before a journey. Fewer still offer a coin to the water as they cross a river or put a little herb or tobacco in the fire for the wind. But my lot don't mind. They know we are all, mostly, confused. And they think we will all be a little less confused when we stop asking for the answer to everything and start asking ourselves what the question really is. [/QUOTE]
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