The season of [Conflatorium](/Conflatorium) (melting) is the second [Liturgical Season](/Liturgical_Season) in the SolSeed Movement's Liturgical Calendar. It symbolizes and celebrates the emergence of complex life in the [Ediacaran](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacara_biota) and [Cambrian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion) periods, after the melting of [Snowball Earth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth) 590 million years ago. During this season the [Weekly Service Calls](/Weekly_Service_Calls) use the following Opening ceremony:
*We gather to mark the passing of a week*
*To align our hearts as one.*
(Light the Sol candle)
(take an ice cube from bowl and hold it in your hand)
*Ice ... just ... ice ...*
*and then ... [gasp] ... Melting*
(Drop the ice cube into warm/hot water)
*Warm Sun! Open Water! Dry Land! Scented Breeze!*
*The sea teems with new lifeforms ...*
*As the ice melts, they emerge to tell their story!*
(pour the ice cubes (or big block of ice) that have things (e.g., trilobites) frozen in them, into the bowl of warm water)
*Cells transcend themselves*
*Uniting with multitudes of sisters to become something more;*
*Complex life explodes into a dazzling diversity of forms!*
(Participants clasp hands, or join two hands clasped if you are alone)
*Next opens the mouth, the first structure,*
*Both the feeder of animals,*
*and the singularity that *
*gave animals direction.*
("Chase" and then eat some food, e.g. seaweed, suishi, shrimp, or goldfish crackers ... participant's choice)
*Then come the senses!*
*Taste, smell, sight, touch, hearing*
((Put fingers on mouth, nose, eye, temple, and ear, thus touching all five senses))
*The sensing which gave the first animals reason to swim.*
*The sensing which still directs us today!*
*Finally, Animals secrete calcium,*
*Armour, Shells, Teeth, Bones, *
(Shake the fossil shakers)
*Massive, piling, surfaces fold through open water,*
*A billion allies emerge,*
*Life learns to make new reefs, new worlds,*
(building motions of one hand on top of another going up up up?)
*Cells Join to Cells. *
*Mouths. Senses. Shells.*
*From silent ice ... teeming reefs!*
(schooling fish motion where each finger is a fish)