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A JOURNEY INTO TUALITY CEREMONY, at the top
The SOLIDARITY AND MU-
CRETAN WEAVING of Mount Psiloritis which took

place at dawn on the summer
TRADITIONS solstice, in Krana Mylopotamou
in Rethymno was attended by
the team of weavers from the Pe-
This year’s summer solstice on the 21st of June celebrated nelope Gandhi Mission, the pio-
an event centred on solidarity and reciprocity in Crete. neering project of the University
of the Mountains, teachers from
Evros to Crete, students and lo-
cal women, inspired by ancient
Crete which is at the same time
a modern proposal of prosperity
for the future, a study that teach-
The “University of the
es the new generation a brave Mountains” rallies a dynamic
community of researchers,
but also peaceful way of life, in academia, social partners and
harmony with nature, awaken- citizens from the mountainous
rural areas of Crete.
ing our inseparable relationship
with the fertility and fruitfulness of
nature. Represented by a hand-
made, flax derived woven gar-
ment, with a certain significance
in our sacred memory, in history,
and in the freedom of the mind,
it represents a language lost in
the depths of time, between the
myth and the woman, the Great
Mother.
The organisation “University
of the Mountains” was found-
ed as a movement whose aim
is to transform the role model of
modern prosperity into one that
will combine sustainable devel-
opment with the restoration of
lost human relationships and the
cultural identity of small societies.
It aims to fulfil its objectives via
protecting the human and natu-
ral environment; reinforcing tradi-
tional economies through mod-
ern management tools so as to researchers, academia, social This blessed seed will transfer
stop the exploitation of natural re- partners and citizens from the pure energy from the hands of
sources; eliminate delinquency mountainous rural areas which the island’s children to the sa-
and dependence on loan financ- function in conditions of original cred Cretan land, where with the
es and subsidies; and redefine interaction and mutual learning. euphoria of the earth, it will bear
human happiness via human The team of the Penelope fruit to become a natural, white
criteria rather than financial data. Gandhi Mission - University of woven cloth, which will warmly
In order to fulfil its mission, the the Mountains together with embrace and illuminate, provid-
“University of the Mountains” students and parents, teachers, ing instruction for self-sufficien-
rallies a dynamic community of teachers sowed the year’s flax. cy and prayer in the near future.

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