Jumping up the Tree of Life.
Hopscotch is a remnant of qabbalistic teaching, much as Ring Around the Rosie is a memory of the Black Death. Children jump from square to square, climbing up the truncated Tree of Life design they’ve drawn on the sidwalk, rising from the mundane to the divine. Then they travel back down. This is the essence of initiatory traditions: leaving the world behind to commune with the Godhead, then bringing the wisdom back to the world when you return. How much more clear can it be?
I actually like this idea so much that I’m gonna work into my UA game (that is perpetually off in the future) a ritual that involves drawing the Tree of Life on the sidewalk and playing hopsctoch on it.