A child draws out hopscotch boxes on the worn, grey cobblestones of the footpath - a simple, thousand-year-old gesture full of powerful symbo-

myth and magic, religion and cabbala, are intermingled with the roots of poetry and art. In its original form, the game was a symbol of the stages of deve-

lism. At an archaic level the origins of the game, which seem to lie in the realms of

lopment of the soul, and was used in rites and ceremonies of passage.