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Tree

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See also:

Pine cone

  • Various notes:
    • The pine cone, on the tree of life, slowly ripens the conifer's female seeds, and in the later stages the cone opens up to release its matured seeds. This process symbolizes the expansion of consciousness ( --> This is directly related to Enlightenment, New Age agenda, Gnosis).
    • See also Fir tree
  • Ancient depictions:

  • Osiris pine cone staff. Egyptian Museum, Turino, Italy. [1]

  • Assyrian winged God (name?) holding a pine cone representing power of regeneration, traceable to Tammuz of Babylon. [2]

  • (See previous)

  • In Iconography, Dionysos is depicted in several ways: Dionysos the infant; Dionysos the beautiful long-haired youth; Dionysos the mature bearded God. He often holds a staff with pine-cones at its end called the thyrsos. His head is frequently crowned with ivy or grape-leaves or a royal crown. [3]

  • Thyrsus staff from Greek mythology [4]

    See also: Primal eye: Greek

  • Dionysus, the Greek god, carries the pine cone staff as a fertility symbol. Pine cones and pine cone staffs are very common on pagan statues and art symbols of fertility and regeneration. [5]

  • Bacchus, Roman-Greek God of drunkenness and revelry, with a pine cone staff. [6]

  • Bronze hand of the Roman mystery cult of Sabazios/Dionysus (see also the Ancient Greece mystery schools: Dionysian Mysteries and the later Eleusinian Mysteries and Orphic Mysteries).

    It dates from the late Roman Empire, when all forms of divination from scrying to astrology, flourished.

    Note: the serpent/dragon/lizard head, the reverse awen handsign, the cow/bull above the altar, and something that resembles a human in a pupa.

  • Pigna ("pine-cone") refers to a famous bronze sculpture of roman origin, in the shape of a huge pine-cone. According to a popular mediaeval legend, it once stood on top of the Pantheon, as a lid for the round opening in the center of the building's vault. Instead, the sculpture is likely to have been used as a fountain in the Baths of Agrippa, Rome's earliest ones (late 1st century BC), which stood just behind the Pantheon's site. In the early Middle Ages the pine-cone was moved to the old St.Peter's basilica, and placed in the court before the church, to be used again as a fountain.

  • (see previous)

  • Wall painting in Pompeii 79 BC [7]

  • A Roman wood and ivory throne found in the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, showing Attis next to a sacred pine tree collecting a pine cone. (Photo: Reuters/Archaeology Superintendent of Pompeii.) [8]

  • Angkor Wat - a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia

    To research: conifer species in this region (in history), or was this symbolism imported from other cultures? If both fail, its a strong case against the "pine cone" symbolism theory here.

  • (see previous)

    Scaled model of the complex.

  • Mexican god holds pine cones and fir tree, symbols of rebirth and the sun. [9]

  • The pine cone is a common symbol on images of Hindu Gods in India [10]


  • Roman Catholic:

  • The largest pinecone statue in the world - flanked by two peacocks - near the Vatican courtyard (Court of the Pine Cone) (larger image).

    Note: that the pine cone is unopened and therefore immature and unenlightened!

  • (see previous)

    Note: the black sarcophagus in front of the pinecone statue.

  • Papal pine cone staff

  • (see previous)

  • Roman Catholic pine cone candle holder.

    Pinecones are common in Roman Catholic architectyre and sacred decorations.

  • (see previous)

  • "The Fountain of the Pine-cone" (1927)

    This fountain sits in front of San Marco church, one of Rome's oldest churches (4th century).

  • Pine cone statue in front of one of the the oldest churches in Bristol, UK (video) (Todo: church name?)

  • (see previous) [11]

  • Bronze Pinecone in the Aachen Cathedral Narthex, Germany [12]

  • Masonic:

  • A crest showing a pine tree branch with pine cones. On a gate outside a masonic lodge in central London. [13]


  • Various:

  • Inlay of Hitler's desk depicting two crossed staffs each with a pine cone on the top.

  • (see previous)

  • Nazi era symbolism: Flag pole top in the shape of pine cone, and eagle chest with a pine cone pattern (outline and hatching).

  • Obelisk with a pine cone on top. Located in London on Lambeth bridge, Lambeth road.

    Supposedly (needs confirmation) close to the MI5 and MI6 secret service buildings.

  • Massachusetts State House dome, which is topped by a pine cone.

    Note: the golden dome sun symbolism.


  • Completed in 2004

  • (see previous)

  • (see previous)

  • Notice the cross-thatch pattern consistent with that of an unopened pine cone.


  • Torre Agbar, barcelona, Spain, very similar architecure as 30 St Mary Axe the building is known by several nicknames, such as "el supositori" (the suppository), "l'obús" (the shell) and some more scatological ones. (wikipedia)

  • Completed in June 2005

  • See previous

Pine Tree

Lily

Sacred blue lily

  • Various notes:
    • Various names: Nymphaea caerulea, Egyptian blue lily, Sacred blue lily.
    • This is an entheogenic plant (see also this video).
      • "It was considered extremely significant in Egyptian mythology, since it was said to rise and fall with the Sun. Consequently, due to its colourings, it was identified, in some beliefs, as having been the original container, in a similar manner to an egg, of Atum, and in similar beliefs Ra, both solar deities. As such, its properties form the origin of the lotus variant of the Ogdoad cosmogeny. It was the symbol of the Egyptian deity Nefertem." [25]
      • "The blue lily does have psychoactive effects, but in my experience it is not a trip like acid or peyote, and instead is very mild, more so than marijuana. It is however a very powerful aphrodisiac." [26]

  • "Ancient Egyptian funerary stele of a man named Ba (seated, sniffing a sacred lotus while receiving libations). Ba's son Mes and wife Iny are also seated. The identity of the libation bearer is unspecified. New Kingdom, Dynasty XVIII, c. 1550-1292 BC." [14]

  • Nefertem (or: Nefertum, Nefer-Tem, Nefer-Temu) [15]

  • (origin?) [16]

  • (origin?) [17]

    See also: Orgy

Fleur-de-lis

  • Various notes:
  • (todo)

Lotus

  • Company logo's:

Sacred Lotus

  • Various notes:
    • Other names: Nelumbo nucifera, Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, sacred water-lily.

Nymphaea lotus

  • Various notes:
    • Alternative names: Tiger Lotus, Egyptian White Water-lily.
    • It grows in various parts of East Africa and Southeast Asia, and is known to flower at night and close in the morning and remains of the flower have been found in the burial tomb of Ramesses II.

Rose

  • 5-pedaled rose, rose cross:

Rose Window

  • Various notes:
    • Another very common form of the solar wheel found in many churches is the rose window. This is often placed above the entrance of the church. It might be unrelated, but they are remarkably similar to the sun images placed over the entrances to Babylonian and Egyptian temples. This show how the customs of Babylonish sun worship have become a traditional part of professed Christian Churches. [27]
    • What is the meaning behind a rose window? Many contemporary authors wax on about Jungian psychology and the rose window as a mandala, which represents the "expression of human aspiration towards wholeness and coherence." [2, p.10] Mandalas have existed in Eastern religion and philosophy for centuries, and in modern thinking, the medieval rose window serves much the same purpose... In eastern philosophy, there are many paths to reach the divine, and these are represented by "gates" at the cardinal points of the mandala. By the same token, saints depicted in the petals of a rose window can be seen as intermediaries (or paths) to Christ. [28]

  • Colored window in the church "Himmelfahrtskirche" Dresden-Leuben, Germany (1901) [21]

  • North Rose Stained Glass Window at Chartres Cathedral, France [22]

Acacia

  • Various notes:
    • "The Acacia is used as a symbol in Freemasonry, to represent purity and endurance of the soul, and as funerary symbolism signifying resurrection and immortality. Also, when God gave Moses the instructions for building the Tabernacle, he said to "make an ark of acacia wood" and "make a table of acacia wood" (Exodus 25:10 & 23)". Acacias contain a number of organic compounds (DMT, NMT) that defend them from pests and grazing animals. Egyptian mythology has associated the acacia tree with characteristics of the tree of life. [29]
    • See also:

  • "The Acacia Fraternity is not the oldest, or largest, or most famous college fraternity, but its origin is distinctive and its record distinguished. With nearly 46,000 initiates since its founding in 1904 and with chapters spread across the United States and Canada, the Acacia Fraternity stands out among its peer collegiate Greek-letter fraternities as being the only college fraternity that uses a Greek word as its name in place of a series of Greek letters and was founded solely by members of the Masonic Fraternity." [23]

Laurel

  • Laurel wreath: A laurel wreath is a circular wreath made of interlocking branches and leaves of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis, Lauraceae), an aromatic broadleaf evergreen. In Greek mythology, Apollo is represented wearing a laurel wreath on his head. (wikipedia)
  • A laurel wreath crown is one of the oldest designs in history, and are often seen with an assortment of either flowers, leaves, fruits, twigs which then form a circular crown. Julius Caesar was one of the first government officials to print his own bust on a Roman minted coin which he is featured wearing a diadem. He wasn't the first to wear a leaf crown on his head. In ancient Greece, Apollo was believed by the people at the time to be an Olympian God, and was represented wearing a laurel wreath on his head. [30]

  • Julius Caesar was one of the first government officials to print his own bust on a Roman minted coin which he is featured wearing a diadem

  • CAES DIC QVAR COS QVINC Venus Laurel wreath Julius Caesar Aureus [24]

  • Napoleon Bonaparte and his rise to power dramatically changed the political and social scene of Europe and the world of costume, including jewellery. At his coronation as Emperor of France in 1804 he wore a gold laurel wreath in the Greek taste. Each leaf represented a military victory

  • See previous

  • One of the freemason logos


Organizations

Evergreen

  • The Christmas tree or Tammuz tree represents Nimrod redivivus- the slain god revived and worshipped as Tammuz...In Babylon where this custom derives, the Lord warns the Israelites against adopting the practices of their idolatrous captives. [31]

To add: Pinecone?

  • Previously known as Air America ( an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1950 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Special Activities Division from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported United States covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.), After pulling out of South Vietnam in 1975, there was an attempt to keep a company presence in Thailand; after this fell through, Air America officially disbanded on June 30, 1976, and was later purchased by Evergreen International Airlines, which continues to provide support for U.S. covert operations (wikipedia)

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