RE: Haipule
July 29, 2019 at 9:59 am
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2019 at 10:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It’s amusing how often human beings are compared to grasses and flowers in magic book. It doesn’t reflect any “order of creation”.....but it does reflect a deeply symbiotic relationship between the three. Deeper than the authors of magic book would have ever known or could have imagined. Using conservative dates the three are relatively recent additions to life, and at no time prior to full human modernity were flowers or grasses so widespread and overcompetitive*. We all come up together and through each other’s efforts, even though there were millions, and hundreds of millions of years between our emergence.
*the max extent of the two plants is still growing, and, in fact exploded in living human memory as more and more habitat is converted to flowering fruits and veggies....and cereal grains.
TLDR. “God” didn’t make the world as we see it or as the authors of magic book saw it. We did. The “garden” was, itself, a necessarily anthropomorphized construct - conceptual set aside from the “wilderness”....to which our love struck children of genesis’ fame were banished. Sentenced to a life of terraforming, and thus growing the range of “god’s” dominion.
This is a common ANE narrative theme. Likely the garbled cultural memory of the assumption of organized agriculture, or simply a way of framing the importance of the then present state of affairs back to the end of Dreamtime.
*the max extent of the two plants is still growing, and, in fact exploded in living human memory as more and more habitat is converted to flowering fruits and veggies....and cereal grains.
TLDR. “God” didn’t make the world as we see it or as the authors of magic book saw it. We did. The “garden” was, itself, a necessarily anthropomorphized construct - conceptual set aside from the “wilderness”....to which our love struck children of genesis’ fame were banished. Sentenced to a life of terraforming, and thus growing the range of “god’s” dominion.
This is a common ANE narrative theme. Likely the garbled cultural memory of the assumption of organized agriculture, or simply a way of framing the importance of the then present state of affairs back to the end of Dreamtime.
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