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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: pre-christian camino, etc.</DIV>
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face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR><BR>>I am
interested in knowing more about the early camino. I've heard
rumors<BR>>that it had pre-christian roots, but would welcome soem
substantial info.<BR>>The more factual the better! :)<BR>>Any sources -
books, etc. backing up anyone's info would also be welcome.<BR>>Maybe it is
the part from Santiago to Finisterre that is thought to be
pre-<BR>>christian gracias,<BR>>Galen<BR><BR>This is
an interesting subject to me.... anyone got any info??<BR><BR>Here are a few
of my thoughts on the subject.<BR><BR>It isn't easy to find substantial
information about such things because<BR>facts from times long-gone tend to
become myth and not believed by modern<BR>people; what there is is then even
more easily mixed up with fantasy or<BR>conjecture, madness and the plain
silly.<BR><BR>Also sometimes in these cases one has to approach the subject
differently.<BR>It would be excellent to get some substantial, factual
information, yes -<BR>excellent. But also the subject shouldn't be
approached with a modern<BR>logical mind! Part of the way we think
today, which has come about with the<BR>industrial revolution and the need to
compartmentalise information and<BR>become scientific and objective, precludes
the kind of holistic, imaginative<BR>and sensitive approach that would help in
understanding what any such 'road'<BR>might have consisted of.
"Knowledge" obtained in such a way is easily<BR>ridiculed, even by our own
logical mind. It is a tender process.<BR><BR>Galen, you have walked the
Camino already. So what does your experience<BR>tell you? Go and
walk it again and see if you were right!<BR><BR>If it is true that there is a
pre-Christian, even prehistoric route there of<BR>some sort, the rocks along
the way will still hold the knowledge. The<BR>passage of humans on the
earth is recorded in the book of records that<BR>nature holds. When we
visit nature, we can peek into the book if we wish.<BR>Facts from history and
the records of men will help but they are only part<BR>of the story.
They can be helpful as clues, but the knowledge is deeper<BR>than that.
Not unavailable, just deeper. And hidden to those who do not<BR>take the
right angle when they search. Perhaps that sounds too mystical
for<BR>some. And I am not an expert at all. But it does seem only
sensible to me<BR>that there is an abundance of knowledge on our planet which
the great<BR>majority of modern people just don't have a clue about because we
live in<BR>urban environments, caught up in the bind of machines, mortgages,
and the<BR>perceived need to be somewhere else in the next five
minutes.<BR><BR>Okay, so I don't know where all that (which I just wrote) came
from! Maybe<BR>I should apply it in my upcoming ten days in
Donegal! I have heard there<BR>are some old 'roadways' in Donegal which
used to be trod as part of a<BR>circular pilgrimage
there.<BR><BR>Sally<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>