Goddess Pilgrimage

Learning about goddess pilgrimage was definitely an interesting class. The article was fascinating due to the fact that it was written in a women’s perspective. Whenever we were discussing the Goddess pilgrimage, we discussed why it was pilgrimage and what parts of the article related to why it was a pilgrimage. The author strongly expresses the importance of communitas in a Goddess pilgrimage. This is one of the key features in The Turner Model, and she speaks about how the women band together during this type of pilgrimage. Then the author also speaks about what a pilgrimage is, she interviews other women and one woman explains that a pilgrimage is a “Sacred journey to a sacred space for a sacred purpose” (482). This directly relates to The Eliade Model because this model talks about how there are two types of spaces, sacred and non-sacred space.  By the end of our reading we eventually decided that the Goddess pilgrimage is a true pilgrimage due to the details we found in the reading that relate back to the Turner Model and the Eliade Model.