Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance only followed and adhered by the Shinto People who worship Athenaism as their religion. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed", or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers. Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim.

Athenaism's Doctrine
Athenaism is the only major religion on the planet of Gaban that requires it's adherents to go through a pilgrimage. By Religious Law in The Big Book of Ancient Gabanian Fables, " All Shinto Men, Women, LGBTQ, and Children must make a Pilgrimage to all the Great Temples of Athenaism. This thou shalt do before thou taketh their final breath as mortal before entering the Underworld. Thou if incapable of visiting all must visit Great Temple of Athens once before they die in order to seek refuge in the Afterlife." Book LXVII St. Bishop.

Sites
There are many places all across the United Kingdom of Russia, Athens,Puerto Rico, and Snelly that constitute as an important place to visit. Many temples count amongst the places of religious significance. However, there are also many sites across the UK that are not Temples. These can be places such as lakes, rivers, streams, and the birth places of Gods, Goddesses, and Saints. Many of these sites are protected by National, Imperial, Local, and Religious Law and are all guarded and protected by the Athenian Faith of the Shinto Peoples.