The Mysteries of Life season opens with Chelanya, the Festival of Regeneration. The grain harvested to be resown for the new crop is emblematic of this mystery. Chelanya is known as the Golden Festival, the ripening grain and the summer sun reflecting the Solar Mother. The image here is Demeter, the Mother in the Greek Mother and Daughter mythos that formed the heart of the Eleusinian Mysteries. She carries the sickle and a sheaf of grain, symbolic of regeneration. Read more about Chelanya, the Golden Festival