Flora Unveiled
108 i Flora Unveiled My honey- man, my honey- man sweetens me always. My lord, the honey- man of the gods, He is the one my womb ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 109 109 109 Ninshubur: In the orchards may there be honey and wine, In the gardens may the ...
110 i Flora Unveiled Shukaletuda is a boy who is charged by his father with building a well to irrigate the family date orchard. ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 111 111 111 date gardener might well get some “dust” in his eyes, which would be consistent ...
(a) (b) (c) Figure 5.9 Mesopotamian cylinder seals images of sacred trees and their goddesses. A. Early third millennium bce. B. ...
113 113 (d) (e) (f) Figure 5.9 Continued ...
114 i Flora Unveiled seems to offer protection to the tree while naked male servants sacrifice a bull. An even more stylized dat ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 115 115 115 which provide food, drink, shade, and shelter, were also associated with goddess ...
(a) (b) Figure 5.10 Representations of Egyptian tree goddesses. A. Funerary painting of the tree goddess Hathor emerging from a ...
117 117 (c) (d) Figure 5.10 Continued ...
118 i Flora Unveiled Identification of women with fruit trees can also be seen in the love poetry of the Turin Papyrus of the Tw ...
119 119 (a) (b) Figure 5.12 Detail from an offering table showing the arms of a tree goddess extending from a tree. B. Drawing o ...
120 i Flora Unveiled She is, after all, a sacred tree, and sacred trees require offerings and libations! Her statement that even ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 121 121 121 agree that the central trunk and apical palmette represents a date palm, and it ...
122 i Flora Unveiled sacred tree of northern Mesopotamia became more stylized as it gradually transcended its agricultural roots ...
123 123 (a) (b) Figure 5.15 Possible Assyrian depiction of artificial pollination. A. Alabaster relief of winged, eagle- headed ...
Figure 5.16 Photographs showing what an unopened male date palm rachis (bottom) looks like when held in the right hand (top) and ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 125 125 125 with vegetation were inscribed onto scarabs (Figure 5.17A), and Egyptian- inspi ...
126 i Flora Unveiled his mother Maacah because she had made an “abominable image” of Asherah, and 1 Kings 18:19 makes mention of ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 127 127 127 when the Sassanid dynasty was overthrown by the Arabs under the Umayyad caliph- ...
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