The second liturgical season of the SolSeed movement runs from mid-winter (approximately February 5th) to the spring equinox. It tells the story of the evolution of life on Earth from the development of multicellularity to the Cambrian Explosion. In the first liturgical season there were four major advances: the ignition of Sol, the agglomeration of the Earth, the Condensation of Water and the invention of Photosynthesis. What would the four major advances of the second season be? Some ideas might be: the invention of organs, the invention of calcification (teeth, armour, bones, coral), the invention of the mouth, the invention of the anus?, the invention of symmetry, the melting of snowball earth.
Here is [[Eric]]'s draft of the opening ceremony for the [[Weekly Service Calls]] during this season:
:Ice ... just ... ice ...
:and then ... [gasp] ... Melting
:Warm Sun! Open Water! Dry Land! Scented Breeze!
:A sea teaming with life ...
:Under the frozen ice, new lifeforms were born.
:And now they emerge to tell their story!
:This story begins with clumps, of cells,
:the invention that grew the individual to any size!
:Next came the mouth, the first structure,
:Both the feeder of animals,
:and the singularity that
:gave animals direction.
:Then came the senses!
:The sensing which gave the first animals reason to swim.
:The sensing which still directs us today!
:Finally, Animals secreted calcium,
:Armour, Shells, Teeth, Bones,
:Massive, piling, surfaces folded through open water,
:A billion allies emerged,
:Life learned to make new reefs, new worlds,
:Clumps. Mouths. Senses. Shells.
:From ice ... reefs!