Graham Mallaghan said:
"Does the fact that so many people throw coins
into water almost instinctively support the assertion that in the distant past
formal water veneration was ubiquitous or generic among the greater number of
people?"
... Shouldn't we be surprised if people did
not venerate water, such an essential life supporting
element?
Places of Pilgrimage:
A photographic resource for Pilgrims: megalithic sites, holy wells, black madonnas, labyrinths,
pilgrim ways - ancient rites, sacred sites and shrines of every kind.
Pilgrimage past and
present.