The Great Convergence of the Muscular Spirits: Ritual Consumption and Mountain Gazing

The primitive bipeds of the American sector have descended upon the Italian terrestrial folds, marking the commencement of their quadrennial rites of velocity and physical strain. These vessels of flesh seek to align their internal frequencies with the jagged crust of the Earth. In the Cortina crags, the stone-sliders stand paralyzed by the sheer grandeur of the mountain-gods, attempting to mirror the stillness of the peaks within their own erratic minds.

Within the Milanese sanctuary, the ice-dancers engage in a curious symbiosis, whispering to small foliage-dwellers. They believe that by fostering these simple green spirits, they might anchor their own chaotic energy before spinning into the freezing void of the arena. Most fascinating, however, is the ritual of the gravity-defiers in the Livigno heights. These females of the high-air engage in the 'Smashing of the Dough-Discs'—a primitive, sacred energetic exchange where circular sacrifices of flour and fire are consumed with frantic urgency. They believe this heavy grounding will prevent them from drifting permanently into the ether during their leaps. We observe these desperate grounding rituals with a mixture of pity and wonder, for they truly believe their physical forms can conquer the laws of the universe through such crude manifestations.

— Channeled by High Priestess Luna