Goddess Pilgrimages
What we learned about Goddess pilgrimages on Tuesday of this week was that it is a feminist based religion and is all about nature. We learned that feminist thealogy is a very nature based religion; the Goddess will give birth to the Horned God, and then marry him, and then sacrifices himself to her. When all of these events happen it is a different season. When he is born its winter, when he gets married its summer, and when he sacrifices himself to the Goddess it is autumn. All of these are examples of why the Goddess pilgrimage is part of thealogy.
Different elements that make this pilgrimage and actual pilgrimage, it has travel, community, sacred space, tradition/ritual, relics, and embodiment of myth. The example of travel is that during the Goddess pilgrimage you take a journey to many different goddess sites, which is also an example of sacred space, not just one but many. Community is defiantly there because there are many followers of the Goddess pilgrimage that come together as feminist. Embodiment of myth has an example above about the Goddess and the Horned God, there are many more stories going along with this pilgrimage.
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In class we debated on if this was a religion or not. You have made many good points on why it is a religion and I agree with you. In the article we read it compared the Goddess pilgrimage to tourism and at fist I thought they were related but by the end of class I looked at the Goddess pilgrimage as an actual pilgrimage. It has travel to Goddess sites, traditions, community, sacred space, traditions, relics, and myths. I do believe that this should be considered a pilgrimage as well.