Pilgrimage

Jan 13, 2006 09:31

So I'm confused. You have 2.5 million people come to a city and bulge it's population as part of a pilgrimage. The pilgrimage consists of moving back and forth between two hills, running around the city, then heading towards three large pillars and you only get 7 days to do it. I'm not going to make any more comment on the rituals of this ( Read more... )

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dontime January 17 2006, 17:52:03 UTC
This is totally unrelated to your post but do you still have those recordings of the 'radio show'? Last week I was minding my own business and all of a sudden in my head I heard

1 2 3 4.....5 6 7 8 Octo - glomerate now back to the case of the missing shhhoe

could you email me the mp3s at groovybomb@gmail.com if you still have them?

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As for your post you have a decent point. How are they supposed to prevent people getting killed when the ritual is to run at these pillars en masse? Unless they straight out outlawed it or organized groups of 1000 people and did it in segments like that there's no way to avoid it. I kinda doubt the people would accept any kind of changes to their ceremony.

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