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Post by librarylady on Aug 17, 2024 14:59:57 GMT
explanation of what others say.
Adam and Eve with psychedelic mushrooms??
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Post by melanell on Aug 17, 2024 16:06:22 GMT
It definitely gave me Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden vibes. Now I'm off to read the article.  Okay, so now having read the article, I'm not sure what it says about me that the part everyone else is so focused on, I gave the least thought of all. I mean, yes, I did notice the tree was very unusual in shape, but Eve looks rather odd to me as well, so I just chalked it up to the style or mood of the artist. I definitely saw it as a tree, not a mushroom, despite it's very mushroom-like shape. And even if I thought to myself "Oh, they used a mushroom instead of a tree." I still wouldn't have given it any more thought than that. I don't really care if Christians of the time were merrily munching hallucinogenic mushrooms or not, I guess.  |
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Post by Rhondito on Aug 17, 2024 17:03:23 GMT
Oooh... that makes a lot more sense. I saw it as a mushroom-looking tree because we've been told all our lives that it was tree. But if they were eating 'shrooms, it all could've been a hallucination. No snake, no apple, just trippin'. |
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Post by KiwiJo on Aug 17, 2024 21:52:22 GMT
Oh for goodness sake! One part of one picture appears to look like a mushroom, and suddenly it’s evidence that Christians in the 13th century used hallucinogenic substances?! That same picture shows the fig leaf as a frilly circle, and the two figures without faces - it’s a simplified stylised rendering, surely. Or perhaps we can infer from it that they thought Eve had made them both aprons, or perhaps that they tied on flatbreads to hide their genitals, and they had a horror of anyone seeing their faces. Gosh, maybe anyone seeing their faces would steal their soul! How many other revelations could we draw from that picture? Even if it truly is a hallucinogenic mushroom plant, it’s not evidence of what ‘early Christians’ did. It might possibly show that Christian’s in that particular village, at that particular time, used them but more likely that the artist did. But again, it’s far more likely to be a simplified stylised rendition of a tree and the white dots are there to make it look nice. |
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