practice
Pilgrimage
A journey toward a sacred place. Hajj, Canterbury roads, and local shrine walks are different institutions, not one pilgrimage essence.
Islam
Pilgrimage appears in Islam.
The Qur’an commands the pilgrimage to the Sacred House for those who can make the way. A named hajj pilgrimage in that scripture, not every sacred journey and not Mecca as the city alone.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Ihram is used in Pilgrimage.
Hughes IHRAM seats the consecrated state and garments of the ḥajj pilgrim — pilgrimage consecration use, not ordinary dress alone.
from Thomas Patrick Hughes · A Dictionary of Islam, 1885
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Egyptian religion
Pilgrimage appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus’s Egyptian logos describes festival crowds traveling by boat to Busiris and other cult seats — pilgrimage-scale sacred travel in traveler speech. A named pilgrimage in that ethnography, not a modern tourism dump and not hajj as an Islam flatten.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Nahua tradition
Pilgrimage appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records journeys to mountain shrines and distant cult places — named pilgrimage as travel for rite. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Hospice is historically related to Pilgrimage.
CE HOSPICE seats mountain and roadside guest-houses that multiplied with pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Rome, Compostela, and other sacred places — hospice lodging kinship toward pilgrimage, not a modern end-care clinic dump.
from Charles G. Herbermann et al. · The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907–1912
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Hospital is historically related to Pilgrimage.
CE HOSPITALS seats Christian xenodochia and later hospital orders that harboured strangers, pilgrims, and the sick (including Crusader hospital work), not a modern clinical chrome dump — hospital kinship toward pilgrimage-care speech.
from Charles G. Herbermann et al. · The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907–1912
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Xenodochium is historically related to Pilgrimage.
CE HOSPITALS seats the xenodochium as the late-antique house for poor or infirm pilgrims among Greek-derived hospital names — xenodochium kinship toward pilgrimage care, not a later medical hospital alone.
from Charles G. Herbermann et al. · The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907–1912
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Guest House is historically related to Pilgrimage.
CE ABBEY seats the Benedictine guest-house among principal monastic parts and describes monastic hospitality to travelers on main highways, later with xenodochia for sick travelers — guest-house kinship toward pilgrimage travel, thin but named.
from Charles G. Herbermann et al. · The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907–1912
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Seventh is historically related to Pilgrimage.
In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, seventh-century practice set the example of repairing in pilgrimage to the holy land — the seventh century seats that pilgrimage custom.
from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)
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Vedic tradition
Varanasi is historically related to Pilgrimage.
Dowson VARANASI seats the sacred city of Benares (also called Kasi) and repeatedly names Benares/Kasi among holy cities and pilgrimage speech — Varanasi pilgrimage kinship, not Mecca as another pole and not a generic riverside dump.
from John Dowson · A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, 1879
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sources
- The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- The Catholic Encyclopedia · Charles G. Herbermann et al.
Charles G. Herbermann et al., The Catholic Encyclopedia (1907–1912).
- A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion · John Dowson
John Dowson, A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion (1879).
- A Dictionary of Islam · Thomas Patrick Hughes
Thomas Patrick Hughes, A Dictionary of Islam (1885).
- A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · Richard Watson
Richard Watson, A Biblical and Theological Dictionary.