In his Report to Greco, Nikos Kazantzakis describes Easter Sunday, shortly before daybreak, in the mountains of Crete. A priest, Father Kaphatos, "races from village to village resurrecting Christ with mercurial speed because there are so many villages having only this one priest, and he must perform the resurrection in all of them before daybreak. Sleeves rolled up, weighted with his vestments and the heavy silver-bound Bible, he clambers over the rocky furze-covered mountains, runs through the holy night gasping for breath, reaches one village, shouts the Christos anesti - ‘Christ is risen!’ - and then dashes to the next village, his tongue hanging out of his mouth." It is almost dawn when he reaches the final village in the parish, "a little hamlet wedged between two crags (where) the p…