This weeks discussion was just a closing of goddess religions and pilgrimages, taking last moments to cram in a couple of last notes/thoughts before we begin working on our projects. Goddess religions are a lot more different than Western religions and some Eastern religion, not because it focuses on the female figure majority of the time but it takes nature as it’s god or in this case goddess. Nature to believers of goddess religions such as Dianic Wiccans and other feminists, believe that nature can heal people and connecting with nature would bring peace to the person. One thing I also took notice is that destruction of nature really provokes pagans of the goddess religions, nature is very important to them. Nature is life, and killing nature is killing yourself. When you die, your body returns to nature and gets recycled, I’m not sure if Wiccans and other Pagan feminists believe in rebirth, but everyone goes through the cycle of being born, growing too old, and then returning to Earth, six feet under in fact.
Moving on, Goddess religions are pretty unique, they don’t mind having tourists go on a pilgrimage just to see different sites or sacred centers offered. The believers aren’t even unhappy to just have tourists who go on the long journeys just for sight-seeing instead of religious or spiritual purposes like the rest of them. All are encouraged to go on the pilgrimage no matter their intentions, well good intentions are recommended, and all are accepted.
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I think this comment was very explanatory. I like how you talked about everything that we have talked about in class. It was nice how you spoke in your own words and made it your own, yet still giving good information about what we discussed. Good job this blog would be helpful to someone who was not familiar with Goddess pilgrimages.
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I thought that goddess religion had some other themes that followed the Hindus belief in Karma and its circular view on life. It also reminded me of Druidism which was a really old religion back when the Roman empire still had stature. I thought that it was interesting how close tourists and pilgrims are in Goddess religion. It puts a new meaning to going around and seeing all of these historical sites. I think Goddess religion is feministic and focuses on the female figure more then it says it does. It sounds very biased towards just women. It makes me think that they are taking what happens to them in Christianity they are doing to males in Goddess pilgrimage.
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I agree with Allison, I think you do a great job in all of your blogs of giving a detailed summary of what was discussed in class each week. I also agree with you when you said Goddess are very different because they are welcoming to others taking their pilgrimage and learning more about what they believe in. Although the Goddess religion is very biased towards women, they are just standing up for what they believe in just as any other religious follower would.
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