Tulips and bulbs are the prefect example of ritual plants. They are planted during fall to prepare the spring. They can be linked to the gardens of Adonis, where plants were cultivated in pots and then dried in the heats of summer. Adonis has been linked to wheat, the main food of European and west Asian people. in fact it has a similar growing time as spring bulbs, which disappear in the heat of summer. Needless to say, tulips have been introduced( even if they are found wild in Europe , as I found reading the post of Laurent Lieser, one of the biggest experts on tulips and bulbs) from Turkey to the Botanist Clusius,where they have been cherished for centuries, and growing from there to Turkmenistan .tulips are linked to Holland and Flanders, due to Tulipanomania? But is that a coincidence? is there something more spiritual, in an extremely materialistic Protestant society in this first economic bubble in history?Now we live in a materialistic society where all the festivities are
pagan, and pagan means peasant, because the peasant is the one linked with the land, whereas the religions of the book of intellect , had to use syncretism which means to transform a pagan rite in
Christian one. Cristianity is a sterile religion where nature is abhored, and considered as a bore as a pain , where afterlife is a something we will be chastised or rewarded in the next.hence this life is just like a transit in the aeroport, between a flight and the other. Nietzche pointed out materialism is a direct evolution of Christianity where Protestantism is the utmost perfection of its materiality. No wonder Haloween became stronger when The all saints day, was forbidden and in Gaelic it means all saints, and now it s just a thing about monsters, but today the first of November it s the first day of the year for the Celts. materialistic ceremonies are nothing more than a desire to retun to a true sacrality of life, but without the conscience of it .The Celtic festivities of Halloween are supposed to be a reference to the Latin festivity of Pomona, as the idea of decorating trees with garlands and balls( fruits), others says it is an Celtic thing, but they took the idea of life after death from the Egyptians so why not?Christmas and this consumertic frenzy hides a pagan instinct. Christmas where made yo prevent saturnalias and Mitra days all festivities linked to death and life. To harvest means to
kill the plants and to make the land barren. snd the seed has to start everything again , in a relentless
activity. likewise Tammuz or Adonis , ( Adonai= Lord, and no wonder it s one of the name of Yavé) child born from an incest where the father is lured by his own spouse to have sex with his daughter. on his discovering that he is bound to kill her, but aphrodites had mercy on the gal and transformed in a myhrr tree, and then she bears life to little Adonis by cutting a branch. aaphrodites felt in love with the kid, but he asked Demeter to take the kid for a while, but them she does not want yo give it back, so they had to make a trial where it was stared that he could stay part of the year with one lady and the other. When he grew up Aphro was so insane by the young stud that Apollo was jealous and made him be killed by boars. from it's blood , Anemones, so another bulb, recollecting yo our rite of planting bulbs. Apart from the Ishtar , Oris Semitic tradition there is a very old tradition of Bacchus , and the myth of eleusis where rites of born again where made more or less in this period. And with the idea of Demetra living six month in the hades and six on the earth , simbolising the energy of vegetation and it's decline during winter. do plant bulbs as a sacrifice and make gardening sacred
sabato 1 novembre 2014
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