In Cafh's symbolism, the year has a cycle that is marked by four ceremonies, in the same way that four seasons are distinguished and, to a certain extent, coincide with them.
Among these ceremonies is the Twenty-eighth of the Moon of February, which is the beginning of the annual cycle, with the reopening of the Book of the Mother. In other words, the beginning of the meetings and when we receive the Annual Mission. It is the time for work, effort and study.
One of humanity's most ancient habits is probably looking up at the sky, especially the night sky with its various signs, stars, and moon faces. And then, in this immensity, we tried to find answers and solutions for our existence.
Today, it appears to be easy to accommodate this process in terms of superstitions and beliefs. In that case, it is essential to remember that it was all our knowledge at a particular time and the only way to explain what was happening daily in our lives.
However, stars and signs were not the only events coming from the sky. Lightning bolts left fire tracks on Earth, and about 2 million years ago, our ancestors, Homo erectus, learned to control this fire generated by lightning, starting what we know nowadays as humanity.
In fact, fire did not just change our diet. It moved humanity towards more social habits, expanding language development by communication needs and creating more sedentary human groups.
Fire was responsible for the fusion of the elements and allowed the development of metallurgy. It hurled humanity from the Stone Age to the Age of Metals and opened the door to the establishment of agriculture.
At that time, there was a deep identification with the solar element that warmed the Earth, produced the thawing, and returned to life right after winter. It generated a link between the Sun, the bowels of the Earth, and the fire that occupied a sacred place in life, as humanity perceived the rhythm that was marked in nature through the year's four seasons.
To bring these events to the present moment, in which we know that we no longer occupy a place in the flat world and that all these phenomena were initially observed at a point in the Northern Hemisphere, we could ask ourselves:
In the face of so much personal and collective technological advancement, what sense would it make to remember something that is so ancestral, so ancient in humanity, which dates to the Neolithic period of human development, approximately 20,000 years ago, when we had just come out of the last great glaciation?
Of course, it is not a matter of moons, suns, or stars but of what it has meant to us as humanity. We no longer have the fear of the Sun not rising, of winter not melting, of the Earth not reheating and returning to produce the food we need. However, it is a moment that marks the celebration of life.
We celebrate the time that has already been fulfilled and let go.
We celebrate the time we are in and make it flourish.
We also celebrate the time to come, opening ourselves to the new to accomplish what is needed in its time and foresight.
We join all those who participated in the development of our humanity, which has been going on for more than 2 million years, and we acknowledge the paths we do not need to retrace.
It is a moment when the great book of life, the Book of the Mother, is opened. If it were once associated with a goddess, nowadays, it represents the celebration of the new beginning, the return to the starting point, the opening of a new phase, and the concrete experience of the sacred in life.
Among these ceremonies is the Twenty-eighth of the Moon of February, which is the beginning of the annual cycle, with the reopening of the Book of the Mother. In other words, the beginning of the meetings and when we receive the Annual Mission. It is the time for work, effort and study.
One of humanity's most ancient habits is probably looking up at the sky, especially the night sky with its various signs, stars, and moon faces. And then, in this immensity, we tried to find answers and solutions for our existence.
Today, it appears to be easy to accommodate this process in terms of superstitions and beliefs. In that case, it is essential to remember that it was all our knowledge at a particular time and the only way to explain what was happening daily in our lives.
However, stars and signs were not the only events coming from the sky. Lightning bolts left fire tracks on Earth, and about 2 million years ago, our ancestors, Homo erectus, learned to control this fire generated by lightning, starting what we know nowadays as humanity.
In fact, fire did not just change our diet. It moved humanity towards more social habits, expanding language development by communication needs and creating more sedentary human groups.
Fire was responsible for the fusion of the elements and allowed the development of metallurgy. It hurled humanity from the Stone Age to the Age of Metals and opened the door to the establishment of agriculture.
At that time, there was a deep identification with the solar element that warmed the Earth, produced the thawing, and returned to life right after winter. It generated a link between the Sun, the bowels of the Earth, and the fire that occupied a sacred place in life, as humanity perceived the rhythm that was marked in nature through the year's four seasons.
To bring these events to the present moment, in which we know that we no longer occupy a place in the flat world and that all these phenomena were initially observed at a point in the Northern Hemisphere, we could ask ourselves:
In the face of so much personal and collective technological advancement, what sense would it make to remember something that is so ancestral, so ancient in humanity, which dates to the Neolithic period of human development, approximately 20,000 years ago, when we had just come out of the last great glaciation?
Of course, it is not a matter of moons, suns, or stars but of what it has meant to us as humanity. We no longer have the fear of the Sun not rising, of winter not melting, of the Earth not reheating and returning to produce the food we need. However, it is a moment that marks the celebration of life.
We celebrate the time that has already been fulfilled and let go.
We celebrate the time we are in and make it flourish.
We also celebrate the time to come, opening ourselves to the new to accomplish what is needed in its time and foresight.
We join all those who participated in the development of our humanity, which has been going on for more than 2 million years, and we acknowledge the paths we do not need to retrace.
It is a moment when the great book of life, the Book of the Mother, is opened. If it were once associated with a goddess, nowadays, it represents the celebration of the new beginning, the return to the starting point, the opening of a new phase, and the concrete experience of the sacred in life.