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Jill
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Portugués, Francés, LePuy, Rota Vicentina, Norte, Madrid, C2C, Salvador, Primitivo, Aragonés, Inglés
I am currently reading “The Way of Stars and Stones, Thoughts on a Pilgrimage” by Wilna Wilkinson. (Published in 2009.) On page 184 she writes:
“After leaving Atapuerca, with its remains of prehistoric man, there’s a steady climb for several kilometres over particularly stony ground. When you near the top of the hill . . . slightly to your left . . . is a very tall cross . . . When you continue up the hill, suddenly, without warning, a vast plateau opens in front of you . . . in the middle of this wide-open plateau on top of the world is a stone spiral; a spiral made of a single continuous line of stones, one against the other, that pilgrims have placed there over time. The spiral covers an enormous area . . . I calculated that the total length of the spiral must be more than a kilometre . . . And when I added my own stone at the end of the line I felt as if I was making my own contribution to a most hallowed place.”
I remember the cross, and the vast plateau at the top of the hill, but I only vaguely remember a line of stones. Does anyone know if the complete spiral is still there, and if anyone still adds another stone to the end of the spiral? If so, I must pay more attention to this place next time I’m wandering through. Jill
“After leaving Atapuerca, with its remains of prehistoric man, there’s a steady climb for several kilometres over particularly stony ground. When you near the top of the hill . . . slightly to your left . . . is a very tall cross . . . When you continue up the hill, suddenly, without warning, a vast plateau opens in front of you . . . in the middle of this wide-open plateau on top of the world is a stone spiral; a spiral made of a single continuous line of stones, one against the other, that pilgrims have placed there over time. The spiral covers an enormous area . . . I calculated that the total length of the spiral must be more than a kilometre . . . And when I added my own stone at the end of the line I felt as if I was making my own contribution to a most hallowed place.”
I remember the cross, and the vast plateau at the top of the hill, but I only vaguely remember a line of stones. Does anyone know if the complete spiral is still there, and if anyone still adds another stone to the end of the spiral? If so, I must pay more attention to this place next time I’m wandering through. Jill