| (19) But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites, because I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot. (20) That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.” (Deuteronomy 2:19-20) Here we learn in Joshua, the land of the Rephaim was in the forests: “Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.” (Joshua 17:15) The Rephaim were defeated in battle in the following verse of Genesis, “In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim.” (Genesis 14:5) They were living among the sons of the Anakim: “’Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt’, saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there’.” (Deuteronomy 1:28) They are next said to be likened to the Amorites: “and slaying them was likened to removing the fruit from a tree which has been felled, Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Though his height was like the height of cedars And he was strong as the oaks; I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.” (Amos 2:9) At this point we might be wise to regard the “giants,” as being giant “trees”; the sequoias, the giant oaks, cedars, most pine trees and cone bearing trees and not actual people. This is a constant theme of the mythos, if some heroes are mushrooms, why not some giants that must be cut down to size and killed, actual trees. The last quote says he “destroyed the fruit above and the root below.” This makes sense only if you see the mushroom as the heroic entity of the olden goddess world and you see the felling of these trees that the A. muscaria grows around, as being necessary to limiting the availability of that substance because you have a new Patriarchal religion to impose. The “giants” (trees) could then be seen as something that early man needed “to deal with” from the Hebrew priesthood’s point of view. The giant trees were likely keeping the people protected whom the Levite priesthood wanted to hunt down and rid the world of. The fatherless people or people of the forest, similar to the movie Avatar. The Levite priests were trying to control everyone in the new founding of the religion when the people still wanted to use cannabis, take mushrooms and sit around, sing, dance and pray. But the Israelite nation had to be built and work had to be done. This is only a supposition of mine though. I have no real proof except for this to support this theory. But I do have more evidence, I will share, in upcoming chapters, to support this idea of mine that the trees were the biblical “giants.” |
In this next bit from Pliny’s Natural History, we read how there were ancient trees that once stood where the Roman cities were built and how they were the objects of “religious veneration,” in other words, places of worship: Chap. 85. The Age of Trees. - The life of some trees might really be looked upon as of infinite duration, if we only think of the dense wilds and inaccessible forests in some parts of the world. In relation, however, to those, the date of which is still within the memory of man, there are some olive-trees still in existence at Liternum, which were planted by the hand of the first Scipio Africanus, as also a myrtle there of extraordinary size; beneath them there is a grotto, in which, it is said, a dragon keeps watch over that hero's shade. There is a lotus tree in the open space before the Temple of Lucina at Rome, which was built in the year of the City (379), a year in which the republic had no magistrates. How much older the tree is than the temple, is a matter of doubt; but that it is older is quite certain, for it was from that same grove that the goddess Lucina derived her name; the tree in question is now about four hundred and fifty years old. The lotus tree, which is known as the Capillata, is still older than this, though it is uncertain what is its age; it received that name from the circumstance of the Vestal Virgins suspending locks of their hair from it. Chap. 86. Trees as old as the city. - There is another lotus in the Yulcanal, (60) which Romulus erected with the tenth part of the spoil taken from the enemy: according to Massurius, it is generally considered to be as old as the City. The roots of this tree penetrate as far as the Forum of Caesar, right across the meeting-places of the municipalities. (61) There was a cypress of equal age growing with it till towards the latter part of Nero's reign, when it fell to the ground, and no attempts were made to raise it again. Chap. 87. Trees in the Suburban Districts Older than the city. - Still older than the City is the holm-oak that stands on the Vaticanian Hill: there is an inscription in bronze upon it, written in Etruscan characters, which states that even in those days it was an object of religious veneration. (9) Anatolia Turkey, Hittite & Hurrians From the 21st century BC to the late 18th century BC, Assyrian influence in Anatolia was very strong, and the Hurrians, like the Hattians, adopted the Assyrian Akkadian cuneiform script around 2000 BC. The Hurrians set up the Indo-Iranian Mitanni kingdom in the area of Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia which lasted from 1500-1250 BC. (9) Pliny’s Natural History [Book XVI.] |