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Pre-Columbian Pilgrimages in Mesoamerica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

George Kubler
George Kubler*
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Yale University
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Before Columbus, Old and New World customs of pilgrimage differed so greatly that separate names today are needed to describe their functions and characters more accurately. In English, pilgrimage and all its synonyms are divided as two families of words, one having to do with journey, and the other with endeavor.

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Diogenes , Volume 32 , Issue 125 , January 1984 , pp. 11 - 23
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Copyright © 1984 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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