The necessity of returning ceremony to women. In Greece as in many other cultures, the original ceremony was worship of divine feminine. The temples were primitive- springs and caves, water and openings. It was about nature, mother earth, our mother, water, vaginal fluid and.. birth. Then.. slowly ?? the patriarchy took it. in Greece, the spring and goddess became marble columns and a god. On my island Tinos, Aug 15, today, celebrates the Virgin Mary going to spirit. It is woman Easter. The ceremony in TInos is carrying down the icon that makes miracles, and people go under the icon, like into the vagina, and pray to Virgin Mary. The icon is a picture of Virgin Mary discovered in a vision by a woman nun, all women, all divine feminine. Then..slowly Aug 15 was celebrated to honor Greeks in the war against Ottoman empire, then again to remember the torpedo of a Greek ship in Tinos harbor in 1940 in WW2. So.. slowly the holiday of the divine feminine also became military and patriarchal. When I came to Tinos, 20 years ago many thousands of Gypsies pilgrimaged here to worship divine feminine and later Ethiopean women came and danced and sang. In Recent years, gypsies have been prevented from sleeping in the church the night of Aug 14 and now in the town and Ethiopean woman from singing and drumming . I went to the celebration this morning and went under the icon and prayed. I prayed for my wife, our family, people I care for and love, peace and for women in ceremony. Then, I bathed in the sea, and the sea spoke to me, “I am the vaginal fluid of Mother Earth. You are bathing in my fluids. Now is the time for women to come back much more deeply into all ceremonial space. Dances and celebrations must involve women to save the earth”. The sea is right. It is time. It is time.