Let the Cere[s]mon[e]y begin!

From post 'PARSE THE TORCH'

"Back in 1960, President Kennedy talked about the torch being passed to “a new generation.” Well, five decades later, the torch is being passed . . . to a new gender. There’s no doubt in my mind that we women will lift that torch. We will carry it. And we will light a new way forward."
Maria Shriver , co-equal-partner of Gov. Schwarzenegger


Ceremony - [L.] Caerimonia - religious worship; ritual observance. WWSkeats gives the root as 'karman' from Sanskrit.

Just before the African Football Championships began 3 people were killed [ by rebels], casting a pall .......

Vancouver's Olympic ceremony had a pall cast over it with the death, in practice, of a young Georgian man [ apparently on a luge course , made more difficult to advantage home athletes, who receive far more practice on tis fatal circuit]

" But the show MUST go ON ' ,
Lyrics - Queen.




The Summer Olympics began with the Georgian-Russian conflict.
08/08/08 [3x8=24] - In LEO
02/12/10 [2+12+10=24] - In AQUARIUS
Hebrew word KD [20+4] = Jug, Pitcher, Ewer. Tarotically the characters =
SUN - 11th card - Sun
TOWER - 4th card - Mars