The high point of our last few days on the Camino de Santiago was an unexpected detour off the pilgrim trail, up to an ancient hill town that's been partially excavated by archaeologists. Native Celtic people lived here from 500 BC through 100 AD, and they constructed three rings of earth works around their hilltop, both for defense against Romans and other invading barbarians, and to mirror the Sun that they honored. We spent an hour wandering alone through their homes and stone hearths, and looking out on the hillsides below where they grazed sheep and farmed.
We slept in an inn nearby that night, and our Galego host said she'd been up there in the moonlight, and that it is full of spirit. We felt it too.
Many of the people who lived there 2500 years ago would have made the pilgrimage, sometime in their lives to Finisterre, the end of the known earth, where the Sun sinks into the sea. That's where we're headed next!
We slept in an inn nearby that night, and our Galego host said she'd been up there in the moonlight, and that it is full of spirit. We felt it too.
Many of the people who lived there 2500 years ago would have made the pilgrimage, sometime in their lives to Finisterre, the end of the known earth, where the Sun sinks into the sea. That's where we're headed next!
