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Copy of tweet thread here: #PeasantAlert #Palestine Destroying a national seed bank is an act of erasure, intended to sever the generational ties between farmers and their land.
@brianmclaren 25/ The Messiah is our universal hero of integration, that is, of planetary reconciliation defined by the wedding of the heaven of earth, ‘the arrival of God in history’, in a path of transformation that does not lead us away from materiality but straight into it and through it.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with Waverly Fitzgerald quotation split across 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 The green / 2 who assumed / 3 Anglo / 4 Waverly / 5 Christian / end Other Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1331008933578874886 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon @UnrighteousD 1/ The green prophetic prototype is an ancient one. The core, transcultural 'transmitter', combining several Quranic, Biblical and ancient mythical heroes, is reckoned to be Khezr, the 'Islamic' prototype of Elijah, the prophetic Green Man of Islam...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with Waverly Fitzgerald quotation split across 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 The green / 2 who assumed / 3 Anglo / 4 Waverly / 5 Christian / end Other Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1719972511792893966 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon 2/ ...who assumed the form of the dragon-slaying figure of St. George. To this day there exists an unusual communion of religious sites in the Holy Land where veneration of St. George and Khezr is shared. St. George is, of course, the patron saint of England. The Martial Knight.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with Waverly Fitzgerald quotation split across 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 The green / 2 who assumed / 3 Anglo / 4 Waverly / 5 Christian / end Other Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1719973170206416972 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon 3/ The Anglo/Euro-Islamic archetype of the green prophet has continued to evolve through the centuries, assuming for example, complex bio-composite forms within western folk religion. "George also has associations with the old Green Man," notes...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with Waverly Fitzgerald quotation split across 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 The green / 2 who assumed / 3 Anglo / 4 Waverly / 5 Christian / end Other Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1719973240708440070 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon 4/ ...Waverly Fitzgerald: "His very name means farmer. In Russia and in Eastern Europe, a boy is decked with branches and flowers and goes about the cornfields on St George's Day. He may be the Whitsuntide Basket (a man dressed in a greenery-bedecked frame on Whitsun..."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with Waverly Fitzgerald quotation split across 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 The green / 2 who assumed / 3 Anglo / 4 Waverly / 5 Christian / end Other Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1719975036306796830 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon 5/ "...the Christian Beltane.) or a tree-spirit, like the Jack in the Green of May Day Mummer's plays." And today, modern theologians describe his likeness in, for example, eschatological visions of 'The Return of the Gardener King of the New Creation.'
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with Waverly Fitzgerald quotation split across 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 The green / 2 who assumed / 3 Anglo / 4 Waverly / 5 Christian / end Other Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1719976924515340638 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon end/ Other moderns note Khezr/St. George "might well be induced to reappear as the patron saint of modern militant eco-enviromentalism", representing a trans-cultural, universalist prototype of prophetic earthworker - the co-evolutionary helix of the Heaven of Earth, personified.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: The answer which undoes Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: and 3 others The answer which undoes the question? 'The Return of the Gardener King of the New Creation' is contemporary, US evangelical theological vernacular. [See Douglas Green in 'When the Gardener Returns: An Ecological Perspective on Adam's Dominion'.] Earth Inheritance is peaceful. Image with calligraphy reading, "Earth Christ"
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Copy of tweet here: Friends since 2018, I've so treasured my relationship with the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library, and feel greatly honored to be part of a network of American growers currently helping to reinvigorate 'Jadu'i', the legendary watermelon variety from Jenin. facebook.com/groups/agrariansharingnetwork/posts/3505938002988599/