@AndrewMillison @RADA_sa_ @OregonState @ncvcksa @GreenRiyadh_SA @NCW_center @Amanatalriyadh @MEWA_KSA @EstidamahSA Closer to home, I'm supporting an Islamic permaculture project just north of Santa Cruz, CA. A few hundred acres. Just now, winter cropping. Next, tree crops. You run into any 'green Islamic philosopher types' over there? There's a shared ethic, surely. Q. 57:21. Best to Marisha.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick; Waverly Fitzgerald quotation across posts 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 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; Waverly Fitzgerald quotation across posts 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 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; Waverly Fitzgerald quotation across posts 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 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; Waverly Fitzgerald quotation across posts 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 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; Waverly Fitzgerald quotation across posts 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 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; Waverly Fitzgerald quotation across posts 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1132440194907402240 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PeterDFleetwood @BremenBod @ar @ArchbishopMark @BeaulieuSchool @Storystudiouk @philmhitchen 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. t.co/UCT2qpft9f
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick; Waverly Fitzgerald quotation across posts 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 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.
Open original documentIn Cali just now, I seed for Gandhi: "In Nature, there is fundamental unity running through all diversity we see about us. Religions are no exception to the natural law." And Barks: "The love way is not religious. It is rather the origin and the longing inside religiousness.”