Nature, the All-Nourishing Great Goddess is now in its wealth of vegetative life, the basis of animal and human existence. From their flora such as food and medicine are, or most plants, which provide access to other worlds. The multifaceted role of the Green people for the people can hardly be overemphasized, and a growing number of publications in recent years, bringing the plant as a partner, friend, healer and teacher back into consciousness.
The author of this book, Clemens Zerling is certainly no stranger to those who are for publications the themes of worship and cultural history, ethnology and history of religion interested. In addition to publications from his pen is his publishing activities. For example, the spectacular in some ways the work of Johanna Wagner in the 1980s was in his publishing house, which sits in Berlin appear.
Clemens Zerling now written an encyclopedia of plant symbolism. The symbol for the word origin is a derivation from the Greek verb symballein , which means to throw together. The importance of content shifted mark, feature or character of or for something, to a sensual sign, which expresses an otherwise elusive idea or complex relationships generalized or different levels of interpretation of an article on just a symbol. This has been the icon to the landmark and symbol of collective consciousness website. And since the representations in Stone Age caves and had a voice in the human plant symbolic, the bill now with this compendium.
From Adonis to the cypress will find here the most important crops in our region image and explanation gathered. The author structured the individual items in such a way that is always started with the botanical names and families. Anfolgend because there are the traditional common names, flowering time, a description of the flower, any abnormalities and curative effects and the basic meaning as a symbol, the basic characteristics and the content of the plant in the language of flowers. In the latter, it is a once in court circles of Europe popular art in the 18th century was imported from the Orient. This subtle language ( selam ) was likely developed in the late ancient Persia and includes an alphabet of flowers, colors and arrangements. And it is just the basic structure of the articles described. Many of the listed species are also attributed a Christian or a presence in myths and legends since ancient times. According to European cultural training, the content of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, or Germanic traditions in the center of the very entertaining stories retold to the respective plants. This is the work not ethnobotanical, but a compendium of cultural history for the Green People.
Since the Paracelsus doctrine of signatures may be missing as little as the consideration of planetary assignments or, if available for the individual plants that Zahlensybolik. Moreover, this band
contains an index that allows to read under different subject headings to throughout the article. We find the following, for example, the term emptiness, the asphodel-tube as a symbol of that very emptiness, just as is the case with cabbage and heather. In addition, to read, says the Therapy Dirk Albrodt the essence of the book flower in support for meditations on the subject blank, Death and Dying (2003). Other terms, such as loyalty, persistence and strength of this approach offer full-length reading because they are blessed with far more plant covers.
are conspicuous, the full-page color illustrations, the next smaller raph lithogenic for a number of plants illustrate the band. They come from the Choix des plus belles Fleurs (Paris 1833) by Pierre Joseph Redoute watercolorist, one of the founders of botanical painting plants, each of whose multi-volume works on panel and lilies Roses are the highlights of the work.
is complemented consuming illustrated encyclopedia of Clemens Zerling by an extensive glossary, a short list of historical sources such as Herodotus, Pliny or Pausanis and a bibliography of literature.
So round about managed can be an encyclopedia.
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