The myth of Santa Compaña, the movie of O Apõstolo

Pelgrimpaul

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• Apr 13, 2015

• #1

Have you ever heard of the pilgrimage of the dead? The Holy Company: Santa Compaña?

Click on link (at end of topic) for more information.

(Source: wikimedia)

Not only on the Santa Compaña but also on the 2013 (Dutch release 2015, other releases unknown to me) animation movie that took seven years in the making and features music by Philip Glass: O Apõstolo.
Including a trailer.

More on the myth and the movie:
Pilgrimage and place

 

Tincatinker

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2012

• Apr 13, 2015

• #2

The Procession of the Dead. Think northern European Neolithic pilgrims bearing the cremated remains of their dead for internment at the End of the World. Think Thomas Avery sprinkling ashes on gate posts, bridges and cross-roads. Think those white-faced, red-eyed, stumbling wretches emerging pre-dawn from Albergues all along the roads to Santiago. Be grateful for Sopa de Ajo

 

Scott Sweeney

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• Apr 14, 2015

• #3

Not familiar but somewhat interesting. http://www.leyendas-urbanas.com/la-santa-compana/

 

Pelegrin

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2019

• Apr 15, 2015

• #4

I remember that the tradition said that if you come across the Santa Compaña you you'll join them for ever.
That is also the problem for caminoaddicts with the Camino.
Could the Camino be a kind of Santa Compaña?