Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing

1/ 'Cad Goddeu' (The Battle of the Trees) is a 248-line medieval Welsh poem, notable for its strikingly enigmatic character, including mention of the Flood, Crucifixion and Day of Judgment. Graves maintains the trees correspond to a bio-metaphysical cipher in the Ogham alphabet.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 6 Sept 2024

@Plough @profntwright Ihan Berk: "The world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to be a myth! That's what we call eternity." Paradise gardening and the Myth Incarnate of 'The Grail Apple', then.

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Quoted by@Plough @BenQuash 6/ The primordial beginning and the eschatological future collapse into each other in the present through what Catherine Keller calls "intercarnational" presence—God becoming immanent through conscience-driven, cruciform participation that restructures what we name the Real.Quoted by@IntractableLion @aspiringpeasant Two, Asian pears. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1QxoVkttJi/?mibextid=wwXIfr And three, Pendragon.Quoted by@Plough 8/ Individual varieties we carry have recorded histories of cultivation dating back 3,000 years. Fruit culture, then, transcends empires, epistemologies, eras - and theologies, too. Perhaps trees, steadfast in their giving, silent as stones, are closer than us to immortality?