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A Venerable Tree

I realized I hadn’t been to see the old growth oaks along Bayou Metairie in the lawn-like front of the park.  miss those venerable trees, a few of whom are special to me, so I went walking today in the forest arboretum looking for a venerable tree. There are some grand ones and not just the oaks in the Pendergrass Grove, but I realized this is not a park. It’s a forest, one large and inter-rooted…

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生徒作品、有城さん。 御神木のどっしり感、幹のささくれ、 樹齢を感じる質感、どけも良いですね! 背景もきちんと描き込む事で主役が際立ちます。 いつも有城さんらしいダイナミックさ、 この木のように安定しています!

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And a Sibyl was appointed for its guardian and inter- preter, who swooned and became delirious under anasthetic ageney while transmitting the response of the gods from her dark recess.

moon died and again arose from the grave; and the moon taught magic and dark sayings from under a cloud, and priests were appointed to interpret her oracles; and the moon was likened to a tree-the tall white pillar was the stem, and the cloudy part was the foliage, and their noblest tree on the hill top was selected for its earthly représentative; sometimes a cave was selected for a temple which imaged the dark cavern of the moon. And a Sibyl was appointed for its guardian and inter- preter, who swooned and became delirious under anasthetic ageney while transmitting the response of the gods from her dark recess. And in the oldest records of Babylonia, six thousand years before the Christian Era, we read of that oracle tree at Eridu, with its appointed priest and interpreter; that tree with its root of white crystal that overshadowed the earth. All knowledge, all healing water, all healing herbs, charms and talismans were hidden in Hades, and raised up from that grave by enchantment. Odin, the high god of the Asas, was obliged to go down to Hades and wake the prophetess to learn the fate of Balder. Saul had to let down the witch to wake and raise the prophet Samuel. Old Wainamoinen, the spring harper of the Kale- vala, was obliged to go down there and wake the old song giant Vipunen, to obtain the three words of wisdom to com- plete his ark, which was to bring back the lost mill Sampo, and the black giant opened his mouth and swallowed him, and Wainamoinen built a fire in the giant and roasted him until he gave up the three lost words, or the ring of the Eastermoon: "the tree of life." Wainamoinen is the solar prince, or last ring of light swal- lowed by the black moon; the same sea monster who swallowed Jonah and Christ, and the third day turned them loose.

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The tree is the moon in spring and summer it is animated. but in winter it becomes the ark, prison house or tomb of the solar light, or ark of Noah. MOLY.

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The plant is the ring of the new moon, the Sesame that opens the door of the black moon; that womb from which light and life escape.

Polyidus having observed the serpent in the act applied the same plant and restored Glaucus, for that never-dying ser- pent or first ring of the moon, restores the dead moon to life on the third day. When the wife of Etana the serpent, could not bring forth the son who lay in the womb, she sought the plant of parturi- tion used by midwives to facilitate delivery, and was told by Shamash, the sun god, it could be found only in the heaven of Anu, the chief god. (Maspero: Dawn of Civilization, 699. ) The plant is the ring of the new moon, the Sesame that opens the door of the black moon; that womb from which light and life escape. For the new moon was the wonder working flower that sprang from the blood of murder, the flower or plant that sprang from the dark slain moon, the mother of plants and herbs; it sprang from the black hill of Calvary, "the place of the skull." The rose of the mystic garden that has blos- somed upon the parent tree. THORN TREE. Jehovah dwelt in the burning thorn tree on Mt. Horeb, and from that bush he spoke to Moses. That tree of light and life on which was kindled the spring fire-the tree was sacred to Jehovah. The Assyrians had the thorn tree of light sacred to the god Ashur. In Arabia, the thorny lotus was the sacred fire tree, and there was heard the voice of God. Tola, "judge of Israel," Tola, "worm" or "serpent" dwells in Mt. Ephraim in Shamir, the "thorn." Digitization

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The fig tree was sacred from Italy to India.

vine reign. (Joshua 11: 13-14.) One is the tree of winter, the other the vine, the tree of spring and summer. The fig is inevitably connected and associated with sex. It is a tradition of the Jews that Eve fell by this tree; that she ate of the lingam fig, or male fig tree, and they sewed fig leaves together to hide their nakedness. The ficus religiosa or religious fig tree of India is the sacred fig tree, and is never allowed to be cut; its leaves are used in divination; it is the haunt of ghosts and hobgoblins. They have worshipped this tree 2200 years in succession; they pray to it and consult it as an oracle; it is their prophet and priest; it is still young and renews itself yearly. The lingam or male emblem was hung in the hollow of the female fig tree, and barren women prayed to it with pro- pitiatory offerings; in Hindu belief the seed of this tree was dropped from heaven. In the Hindu legend when Brahma had taken human form, a blossom of the sacred fig tree was dropped from heaven for his temptation, and at the instigation of his wife, Brahma ob- tains the blossom to render himself immortal, for which he re- ceived a curse similar to Adam. To see thy shame is phallie, in the 18th book of the Odyssey. The braggart Irus is told if he is beaten in the strife with Odysseus, he will be given over to King Echetus, and have his shame cut off and thrown to dogs, a periphrase to avoid ob- scenity. That was the shame of Eden hidden by fig leaves; the shame of Noah revealed by Ham and covered by his brothers. The fig tree was sacred from Italy to India. A basket of figs was carried in the processions of the Eleu- sinian mysteries, and the phalli carried were made of the wood of the fig tree. The ficus indica is the tree of knowledge (Eve's tree) ; a

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spring they are brought back by the sun king Hercules, and in winter stolen back by the serpent king of winter. Like the summer fire of Promethus, it is lent but for a season; it was a scion eut from a heavenly tree-the moon. Like the cup bearers of Jove's banquet hall, caught up from earth to the moon to escape the perils of the evil season of winter, as Pelops, Iphigenia, Hebe, and Jack and Jill, the water car- riers, to return again to earth in the spring. Like the quicken tree brought from fairyland in "Tale of Dermot and Grania'' in Celtie Romance (Joice) the fairy quicken tree of Dooroo guarded by Sharvan the surly giant. the moon tree which comes down from heaven every year to dwell in the garden of the east. The above was Eve's tree of knowledge. NAIL TREE. On the Ides of September a nail was driven by the supreme Pretor in the temple wall of the Capitoline Jupiter; this marked a year, and was the annual nail, the record of time. It was first driven at the dedication of the temple. For it was dedicated on the Ides of September, and an era was reckoned from that day. It was similar to the binding of a bundle of reeds, or the sheaf of the year among primitive nations. The lapse of each Etruscan year was recorded by driving a nail into the temple of Nortia, (the goddess of Fate) at Volsinii. In Vienna the sacred tree still stands in the centre of the city, in which anciently every apprentice before starting upon his journey drove a nail. It was called "stoch am Eisen" (the iron tree or stump). It was a luck nail, or token; the point where the old year ends is where the new