Time to "lighten up" farrout and realize that there are as many pilgrimages
as there are pilgrims.  Your arrogance in assuming that they must be imitative
of some earlier religious or spiritual quest is ridiculously narrow.  While you are
at it, learn to spell--it is Salman Rushdie, not some species of fish.  On the other
hand perhaps in your pious purity of thought and definition you were driven to make the well-known link between early Christianity and fishing.  I note as well
you prefer using the Germanic "dreck" to the original Yiddish "drek"--odd for
someone who claims to value the original meaning of things.