ABSTRACT
The sacred is in the earth, and the main deity is feminine. The sunlight came in through the narrow window with the smell of beech trees from the garden below, as the mountain breeze stirred up their branches. It is the summer of 2000, and the World Gay Pride Parade takes place in Rome as a gay jubilee. On the steep mountain slope past the river and the narrow valley, medium-sized beech trees fill the landscape behind the minister's head. The towns people are gathered in the landing. Most of them are old, and she can recognize the way they are related from their facial traits. The village is small, and Tonina noticed that the evening we met, the three of us went to a Chinese restaurant out of town instead of hers. The missionary position was very widespread! The climate too, so cold in the winter that people had to always wear long underwear, even in bed.
