Women Who Died For Trees (3)

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The Wealth Virus clusters, whence come the dreams of becoming rich, often turn into nightmares. The following is a nightmare that comes of a dream to have money. The dreams currently dreamt in Russia leads to the nightmarish result shown in the following video .

When the pot of gold at the end of a rainbows is not discovered to be where imagined, human beings turn to less romantic sayings in order to suppport their unfulfilled dreams, for example: “Money grows on trees”. This last in due time transports the dreamer over the rain’s golden dew to the edge of a forest with an axe and saw in hand.

The axe and saw mark the beginning of violence against tree. The invention of the circular saw nthed the violence. Just as a man riding a horse with saber in hand is nthed by a tank .

With the cutting of trees, the values of violence prone princes and kings began to interfere with the values of a forest people. Noteworthy features of forests, trees and ferns, never before much noticed, suddenly began to be mentioned by story tellers and writers. There arose stories about trees, roots, mushrooms, animals, wells, and swamps not much taken note of before. For example, the ol’ rabbit hole that Alice fell into and discover her wonder world became an entrance to another realm. Perhaps the story had already been known, but not taken much note of before, because it was such an obvious day to day feature.

Which ever feature of the forest interests us, its appearance in fairy tales provides evidence that when our planet was still covered with forests, human beings had identified with trees for a long time already. It was not only that a linden tree stood for a woman, and an oak for a man, but at festival time a birch was brought into the house and was thought of as a young. Only in our own time do we hear brutish urban bureaucrats call birch trees weeds that need not be spared when land is cleared for a building project..

One famous story that associates human beings with trees is from India. It is about the Bishnois of India. 366 Bishnois were killed by the soldiers of Maharajah Abhay Singh of Jodhpur in an event known as The Khejarli Massacre in 1730. Today the Bishnois remember the event in a September festival. The stories about the Maharajah’s gruesome deed come with minor variations. Ths following version tells us, that it was only 363 women who were decapitated.

That most of the victims at Kherjarli should be women, suggests that it was women who particularly identified themselves with trees as Latvian people of long ago had done. The suggestion of the involvement of women with trees is corraborated by the story from the Bible, the one about apple tree from which Eve held in her hands an apple.

The apple is a symbol of temptation and desire. By putting the apple into the hands of Eve, the ancient writers hinted that women were and Eve certainly was associated with apple trees. Of course, when tempted and desiring, we sooner associate a woman with a kiss, whereas an apple suggests a bite. The possibility of juxtaposing a kiss with a bite and women with felled trees, appears to confirm the poetic aspects of dreams of a time that followed a time when the setting sun gave the forests a haircut with the shears of her rays.

As strange as it may seem, a meme presents to me an image of the “Kiss of Judas".

Why is betrayal done with a kiss? Does it have something with a “knowing” kiss?

“Yes”, certainly, however, since this “knowing” occurs between two males, it raises—for many—questions. I suppose it is this very question (of homosexuality) that that presents one with a potentially atheistic interpretation. Judas may kiss as a whore kisses (for thirty pieces of silver), which is why whores are reputed not to kiss.

Sometimes dreams repeat themselves. In the instance of my self, “the wealth virus”, when associated with desire for a particular woman I may be tempted to have a sexual relationship, may be frustrated by lack of money (which may make a certain woman unapproachable). Then, my desire does not turn into a kiss, but may turn into anxiety and the pervert itself into the buzz of a chainsaw.

One thing that urban people forget is that their sex is more virtual  than it is real. Virtual sex is like a passing image, which is why modern business thinks of selling men plastic dolls as sexual partners.

However, in earlier times, sex was associated with “knowing”. When two people slept with each other, they got to “know” each other. Sex therefore was thought of as a bonding agent. There were no “one night stands” then.

The one night stand probably also has a lot to do with “silent sex” or undemonstrative sex . One may hear an “ooh ooh”, yet a man may never know if his woman partner did come off or n o. I wonder how Janis Jopplin did it?