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Well maybe, but the image in my memory has two caucasian beards in brown habits. It was only a brief excerpt but a powerful and arresting image of devotion.I don´t that has anything to do with the Camino de Santiago. It´s more like what some pilgrims do in Tibet.
Ondo Ibili !
I don´t that has anything to do with the Camino de Santiago. It´s more like what some pilgrims do in Tibet.
Ondo Ibili !
It's a distant memory, but I thought up onto feet and then prostrating themselves again.When you say "getting up" do you mean getting up on their knees or on their feet? Like others, I also associate pilgrimage by prostration with Tibetan buddhism - here is one such article http://www.exploretibet.com/blog/tibetans-prostration-is-the-world-longest-pilgrimage/. Moving forwards on the knees, without prostrating, is something I associate with Catholic rituals although not with a long pilgrimage but rather with a shorter approach to a pilgrimage chapel, for example along the stations of the cross on a via crucis. I last happened to see this in the 70s, I'm not sure whether people are still doing this today.
Hello, no indeed it was surely reportage. Bunuel is not on my wavelength.Might this be a scene from the atmospheric and fantastic Luis Bunuel's famous (and infamous) 1969 film The Milky Way/La Voie Lactée which depicts two French pilgrims walking back through historic time along the camino and those they meet?
MM
Not just Tibetean Buddhist prostrate with every other step on a pilgrimage...(UK-based peregrino)
Greetings,
Occasionally I think back to where and when I became camino conscious. I walked to Santiago, for the first time, last year, but I reckon I first heard of the Camino de Santiago as far back as 2003, watching a documentary series called The Naked Pilgrim. What I am trying to pinpoint is where and when I saw something else.
Somewhere along the line I must have seen another programme about pilgrimage, because I have an image in my mind of two monks going their way (I think to Compostela) on their knees! Getting up, falling forward, getting up, falling forward, all along the dusty road. Possibly archival footage from the '60s or '70s, but does anyone else, any UK pilgrims remember this snapshot from a TV documentary?
I'd be very interested to know.
Thanks,
P.
What you are describing sounds like a similar tradition in Mexico City. I saw this in the early 70's at the cathedral off of the Reforma. From what I recall ,a walk on their knees from a distance was penance for forgiveness . It was also a documentary from national geographic as I recall.
Also in the May 2015 edition is a short story on the Camino de France , in case anyone is interested. Hope this helps.
The Bergman has a procession of penitents flagellating themselves. Very grim.Not just Tibetean Buddhist prostrate with every other step on a pilgrimage...
Growing up in Europe I've seen and heard people go on Pilgrimage '3 steps forwards, two steps back' or any variation of this. or pilgrims walked towards their destination on foot ... but on the last 100 or 1000 meters before the church/chapel/santuario etc would approach on their knees, or prostrate every 10th step (or whatever the number was), etc etc.
In many latin countries I have observed how people inside churches approach the altar on their knees, and/or prostrations.
Vaguely remember a Bergman film (seventh seal?) which features a procession/pilgrimage of monks in brownish garb. - Also seen Hindu pilgrims do this 'steping forward, prostrations, getting up, forward, prostrations ... etc etc ... plenty of dusty roads there as well.
good luck in finding/pin-pointing your first pilgrim-aha-moment
buen camino!
c
The museum of pilgrimages in Santiago was quite fascinating. I remember a Dutch girl walking barefoot to Santiago over stony ground. She seemed fine with it.There is a pilgrimage up a mountain (Croagh Patrick) in Mayo Ireland.
Some pilgrims do barefoot , rocks and all.
The museum of pilgrimages in Santiago was quite fascinating. I remember a Dutch girl walking barefoot to Santiago over stony ground. She seemed fine with it.
(UK-based peregrino)
Greetings,
Occasionally I think back to where and when I became camino conscious. I walked to Santiago, for the first time, last year, but I reckon I first heard of the Camino de Santiago as far back as 2003, watching a documentary series called The Naked Pilgrim. What I am trying to pinpoint is where and when I saw something else.
Somewhere along the line I must have seen another programme about pilgrimage, because I have an image in my mind of two monks going their way (I think to Compostela) on their knees! Getting up, falling forward, getting up, falling forward, all along the dusty road. Possibly archival footage from the '60s or '70s, but does anyone else, any UK pilgrims remember this snapshot from a TV documentary?
I'd be very interested to know.
Thanks,
P.
I can't help with the I.D. but what the monks are doing is 'prostrating' themselves in prayer, as I saw so much in Tibet; travelling for weeks and sometimes months to arrive at certain sacred sites.(UK-based peregrino)
Greetings,
Occasionally I think back to where and when I became camino conscious. I walked to Santiago, for the first time, last year, but I reckon I first heard of the Camino de Santiago as far back as 2003, watching a documentary series called The Naked Pilgrim. What I am trying to pinpoint is where and when I saw something else.
Somewhere along the line I must have seen another programme about pilgrimage, because I have an image in my mind of two monks going their way (I think to Compostela) on their knees! Getting up, falling forward, getting up, falling forward, all along the dusty road. Possibly archival footage from the '60s or '70s, but does anyone else, any UK pilgrims remember this snapshot from a TV documentary?
I'd be very interested to know.
Thanks,
P.
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