pre-christian camino, etc.

[Sally Haden]

Hi Galen and all,

>I am interested in knowing more about the early camino.  I've heard rumors
>that it had pre-christian roots, but would welcome soem substantial info.
>The more factual the better! :)
>Any sources - books, etc. backing up anyone's info would also be welcome.
>Maybe it is the part from Santiago to Finisterre that is thought to be pre-
>christian    gracias,
>Galen

This is an interesting subject to me.... anyone got any info??

Here are a few of my thoughts on the subject.

It isn't easy to find substantial information about such things because
facts from times long-gone tend to become myth and not believed by modern
people; what there is is then even more easily mixed up with fantasy or
conjecture, madness and the plain silly.

Also sometimes in these cases one has to approach the subject differently.
It would be excellent to get some substantial, factual information, yes -
excellent.  But also the subject shouldn't be approached with a modern
logical mind!  Part of the way we think today, which has come about with the
industrial revolution and the need to compartmentalise information and
become scientific and objective, precludes the kind of holistic, imaginative
and sensitive approach that would help in understanding what any such 'road'
might have consisted of.  "Knowledge" obtained in such a way is easily
ridiculed, even by our own logical mind.  It is a tender process.

Galen, you have walked the Camino already.  So what does your experience
tell you?  Go and walk it again and see if you were right!

If it is true that there is a pre-Christian, even prehistoric route there of
some sort, the rocks along the way will still hold the knowledge.  The
passage of humans on the earth is recorded in the book of records that
nature holds.  When we visit nature, we can peek into the book if we wish.
Facts from history and the records of men will help but they are only part
of the story.  They can be helpful as clues, but the knowledge is deeper
than that.  Not unavailable, just deeper.  And hidden to those who do not
take the right angle when they search.  Perhaps that sounds too mystical for
some. And I am not an expert at all.  But it does seem only sensible to me
that there is an abundance of knowledge on our planet which the great
majority of modern people just don't have a clue about because we live in
urban environments, caught up in the bind of machines, mortgages, and the
perceived need to be somewhere else in the next five minutes.

Okay, so I don't know where all that (which I just wrote) came from!  Maybe
I should apply it in my upcoming ten days in Donegal!  I have heard there
are some old 'roadways' in Donegal which used to be trod as part of a
circular pilgrimage there.

Sally

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