Arcadia Discussion Zone

...and don't forget the "oil" of Gethsemane.

jésuite ones.

the one chosen to die

exactly.

Mort épée.

In his work entitled Schiehallion, published in 1905, the Rev. John Sinclair, M.A., B.D., Parish Minister of Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire, writes: "Schiehallion is distinguished as a widely known and very beautiful mountain. It was on its sides, in 1774, that Dr. Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal, made those famous observations on the attraction of the Pendulum by a large but determinate mass of matter, which afforded the data from which the weight of the earth was approximately ascertained; and, accordingly, wherever there is an association of scientific men throughout the civilised world, the name of Schiehallion is familiarly known to them in this connection." The Rev. John Sinclair who, as the Earl of Caithness was the head of the Sinclair Templar family of Rosslyn Chapel fame, also writes: "I envy not the man who can climb Schiehallion without experiencing certain emotions of reverential awe, which raise the thoughts of the heart from earthly to heavenly things. I can truly say that in my climbings of the dear mountain, I invariably felt myself, as it were, in a sweet atmosphere of Bible imagery, thinking of Moses, Elijah, the Saviour, and others, when they climbed those sacred mountains in the east, and there held communion with the great Father of spirits....The poem entitled, 'The Second Sight: A Rannoch Mystery,' has got at least this one merit that it is an attempt to picture out a form of belief in the superhuman which has probably existed among the people of the district for many hundreds of years. In former times it was the males that were the seers of the Rannoch Israel; but in our day the Deborahs and the Huldahs have taken up the role of revealing the mysteries of the present, the distant, and the future."

exactly.

Mort épée.

No

Incidentally my next door neighbour, a former gamekeeper for a very large estate, used to take off his hat and say 'Good Morning Mister' every time he saw a Magpie. On one occasion he left some rat poison (Wolferin) out and a Magpie must have eaten some. He opened his door one morning and the Magpie was on his doorstep dying. The incident made him ill for some time.

Well, rat poison will make one ill. That is why it is called poison... But at least the magpie recovered in the end! However, it does mean that this particular magpie was not a dead magpie and therefore of no relevance to this discussion. It affected him psychologically, so much so that he had physical symptoms.

it has a lot of relevance to MY discussion. And I see that the point of my personal experience went right over your head.

The point was that some people even today are steeped in superstition, particularly those who are COUNTRY DWELLERS. The Latin for COUNTRY DWELLER is PAGUS from which the word PAGAN comes from.

Oh and the word HEATHEN simply means a dweller of the Heathland.

Yes, yes, yes, and none of it goes over my head. Because this is all-encompassing for you, Rosoce, you are projecting that onto everybody else. My guess is that almost no one really cares that much what you think, particularly as you simply haven't got the bollocks to say what it is you believe so strongly (although it would seem to be just another Lincoln cast-off). Do you ever have an original thought?

Sainte Barbe the patroness of la bonne mort and her Chalice of "happy death"....this is Charon's obol in it's other disguise, but either way, this "sustenance for the journey" pays the ferryman who conveys souls across the river that divides the world of the living from the world of the dead....

yes, i know.

“Mortepee” actually comes from the Irish-American: tepee mór , i.e. “big tent” .
It’s an allusion to the big top (chapiteau) of the travelling theatre of the Priory (le grand music-hall de Sion (Valais). (“Circuit”, chapter xv.)

or perhaps a chapiteau of the corinthian persuasion.

Lake Kinneret – the Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee - Lake Kinneret, in the Jordan Great Rift Valley.
The lake often appears on maps and in the New Testament as Sea of Galilee or Sea of Tiberias. The Babylonian Talmud, as well as Josephus Flavius mention the lake by the name "Sea of Ginnosar" after a small fertile plain that lies on its western side.
This name, in the form Lake of Gennesaret or Sea of Gennesaret appears in Christian religious texts. The name common in Hebrew today is borrowed from the Hebrew Bible, where the lake is called the "Sea of Chinnereth" (or spelled as "Kinnereth").
This name was also found in the scripts of Ugarit, in the Aqhat Epic. A variant of this name is Sea of Chinneroth. The name may originate from the Hebrew word kinnor ("harp" or "lyre")), in view of the shape of the lake, perhaps from a name of a fruit called in Biblical Hebrew kinar, and is thought to be the fruit of Ziziphus spina-christi.

In Christian tradition the tree Ziziphus spina-christi was identified with the thorn bush with which Jesus was crowned before his crucifixion (Matthew 27:28–29; John 19:5; Mark 15:17). This is also the source for the scientific name (spina-christi).

Ziziphus, the ancient Greeks called the tree zizyphon, from the Arabic zizouf, a name for the mythical lotus. This was taken into Latin as zizyphum, or zizypha for the fruits.
spina-christi, spina, thorn; prickle, spine; meaning "covered with Christ's-thorn."


The Ziziphus spina-christi has round golden fruit...like small shining apples.

The Golden bough and / or the Lyre of Aeneas.

It is suggested that this is the only tree species considered "holy" by Muslims (all the individuals of the species are sanctified by religion) in addition to its status as "sacred tree (particular trees which are venerated due to historical or magical events related to them, regardless of their botanical identity) in the Middle East. It has also a special status as "blessed tree" among the Druze. ..... ("sacred" trees are called "blessed" because according to their tradition only humans can be sacred).


and as i mentioned the other day...the word blue is thought to originally designate a discoloured, pale, washed-out shade. Through a Proto-Indo-European root, it is also linked with Latin flavus "yellow" as in golden... with Greek phalos (white), French blanc (white) and with Russian белый, belyi ("white," see beluga), and Welsh blawr (grey) all of which derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhel- meaning "to shine, flash or burn"..Bel, Beli, Belennos etc.

the shining golden apples of eternal youth and resurrection.