The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore?

The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore?

Author: Jabulani Midzi

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-08-05

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1524661902

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The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore? turns its attention to the book that forms one of the key foundation stones laying at the base of the worlds cultures. It reviews the nature of its contents and the content of its claims to truth. The author, Jabulani Midzi, brings to the books audacious task a keen eye focused and a listening ear attuned to the messages contained in the pages of the Bible. As he notes, the Bible contains law, history, poetry, prophecy, gospels and epistles. By surveying the nature of these various types of writing and summarising the Bibles claims contained in them, he gives readers the background they need to understand the Bibles assertions about God. Then, by using insights and observations informed by the developments in the history of thought, he presents the options for readers to contemplate as they consider whether they believe the Bible contains the infallible word of God. This book attends to the Scriptures, assesses scholarly insights, and shares observationsnot judgementsabout the reliability of the Bibles assertions that it contains and proclaims Gods infallible word.


The Forbidden Fruit & The Tree of Knowledge

The Forbidden Fruit & The Tree of Knowledge

Author: Blake C. Erickson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-09-24

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0557019524

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As a human being living in today's reality, information is readily available for interpretation and subjectivism. The information provided in this book may cause a few readers to prop up on the edge of their seat as they ponder such notions as: Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Religion, Ancient History, Mythology, Symbolism, Shamanism, Music, Art, Crop Circles, and UFOs. 'The Forbidden Fruit & The Tree of Knowledge' is a book that is intended to raise some very curious questions about seemingly random topics which hold a sacred geometrical outline for understanding who and what we are.


Forest Folklore, Mythology and Romance

Forest Folklore, Mythology and Romance

Author: Alexander Porteous

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1528761294

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A comprehensive guide to forest folklore, including European and Asian mythology. First published in 1928, this volume was written by Alexander Porteous and details the lore and mythology behind many European and Asian beliefs and customs. The contents include: - Forests of Eld - Fabulous Forests - Forestry - Groves - Mythical Denizens of the Forests and Woods - Trees - Folklore


The Sacred Tree

The Sacred Tree

Author: J. H. Philpot

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13:

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.


The Garden of Eden Myth

The Garden of Eden Myth

Author: Walter Mattfeld

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0557885302

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Scholarly proposals are presented for the pre-biblical origin in Mesopotamian myths of the Garden of Eden story. Some Liberal PhD scholars (1854-2010) embracing an Anthropological viewpoint have proposed that the Hebrews have recast earlier motifs appearing in Mesopotamian myths. Eden's garden is understood to be a recast of the gods' city-gardens in the Sumerian Edin, the floodplain of Lower Mesopotamia. It is understood that the Hebrews in the book of Genesis are refuting the Mesopotamian account of why Man was created and his relationship with his Creators (the gods and goddesses). They deny that Man is a sinner and rebel because he was made in the image of gods and goddesses who were themselves sinners and rebels, who made man to be their agricultural slave to grow and harvest their food and feed it to them in temple sacrifices thereby ending the need of the gods to toil for their food in the city-gardens of Edin in ancient Sumer.


SACRED TREE OR THE TREE IN REL

SACRED TREE OR THE TREE IN REL

Author: J. H. Mrs Philpot

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781371032432

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The Lore of the Forest

The Lore of the Forest

Author: Alexander Porteous

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1596051051

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Sacred Groves and Tree Nymphs, Yule Logs and Divining Rods, Wild Huntsmen and Wood-Wives . . . Delve into an enchanting exploration of the magic and mystery of forest realms in this scholarly and highly readable work. Fact and fable sit sid Since its original publication in 1928, this lively guide to the folklore of the forest around the world has also appeared under such titles as The Forest in Folklore and Mythology and Forest Folklore, Mythology and Romance. It has become a beloved sou AUTHOR BIO: Scottish author ALEXANDER PORTEOUS was a professor of philosophy whose work appeared in various philosophical journals, which include The Town Council Seals of Scotland; Historical, Legendary and Heraldic (1906) and The History of Crieff from the Earli


Forbidden Fruit, Atlantis, Aliens, and Cellular Dreams

Forbidden Fruit, Atlantis, Aliens, and Cellular Dreams

Author: Kevin Garrett

Publisher: RoseDog Books

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781480975064

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EDEN AS TIDAL POOL GARDEN The author suggests The Garden of Eden as a kind of tidal pool garden, an underwater laboratory in which God, The Molecular Biologist, created all animal life on the Earth. This possibility was hinted in Genesis Chapter 2, verse 4 and 5. The Scriptures read, "The Lord had sent no rain upon the Earth...but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground." Also in verse 10, The Scriptures read, "a river rises in Eden to water the garden." TREE OF LIFE, TREE OF KNOWLEDGE With Eden as an underwater garden, the author further suggests The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge as the biological structures from which all animal life on the planet originated. In stripping away all supernatural elements from the myth story, while holding to Biblical Scripture, the author attempts a retelling of the myth story from a purely scientific perspective. In keeping with this proposition, The Tree of Life is redefined as the structure that provided the male reproductive cell; The Tree of Knowledge is redefined as the structure that provided the female reproductive cell; The Forbidden Fruit, itself, is redefined as The Reproductive Egg. THE EATING OF THE FRUIT From these suppositions, and with Biblical Scripture as his guide, the author reinterprets "The Eating of the Forbidden Fruit," recorded in the book of Genesis, as "The Absorption of the Reproductive Egg into the Female Body." This new interpretation of The Garden of Eden Myth Story, reconciles two important questions regarding the myth story. These questions are: 1) How can eating a fruit cause a man and a woman to realize that they are naked? 2) How can eating a fruit cause a female to experience pain in childbirth? Other little mysteries concerning life on Earth made more understandable by this new interpretation of The Garden of Eden Myth Story include our often bizarre attitude toward sex, The Alien Abduction Phenomenon, and, concerning the chicken and the egg...which one came first? This book is a companion work to the author's first book, To The Faithless and The Unbelieving BERTRAM GREY, which was Runner-Up at the 2014 Green Book Festival and Runner-Up at the 2014 Southern California Book Festival.


Ancestor Trouble

Ancestor Trouble

Author: Maud Newton

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0812987497

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“Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” (The Boston Globe). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. She set out to research her genealogy—her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernity’s dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writer’s attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her family's past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us.