Ereshkigal’s Garden: Green Burial as Sacred Composting

Ereshkigal’s Garden: Green Burial as Sacred Composting
A workshop on death, design, and devotion to the living world
Presented by Greater Mysteries & Ash Scribe

This workshop introduces green burial as an ecologically meaningful way to die. We’ll ground ourselves in the practical realities of what green burial is (and isn’t), while tracing how post-industrial customs have distanced us from death, decay, and communal care.

Through the mythic underworld of Ereshkigal, queen of decay and gestation, we’ll get to know death as a creative force.

Together, we’ll reimagine death and dying in the Hudson Valley, drawing on design thinking and the work of regional death innovators. This workshop invites reflection and conversation on returning our bodies and rituals to the Earth.

This offering is part of the Lesser Mysteries spring cycle within the Greater Mysteries project — an ongoing cycle of seasonal gatherings in the Hudson Valley that explores transformation through the timeless arts of music, myth, and ritual.