Plants of Life, Plants of DeathThis study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine. |
Contents
TulsiBotanic Geographic and Historical | 8 |
Benefits Gained from Worship of the Tulsi Plant | 26 |
SACRED FIGTREES OF INDIA | 41 |
MANDRAKE A ROOT HUMAN IN FORM WITH NOTES | 101 |
Mandrake in Matters of Love and Fertility | 107 |
A QUESTION OF ODOR? GARLIC AND ITS RELATIVES | 136 |
Suitability of Garlic and Onions for Offering to the Gods | 147 |
Conclusions | 155 |
THE COLOR BLACK IN THE PYTHAGOREAN BAN | 192 |
216 | 249 |
PARALLELS AND SURVIVALS | 250 |
Beans as Symbolic of Sex and as Containing the Spirit | 262 |
Relationships between People and Their | 296 |
Concerns of Ancient Peoples in Their Dealings with Ritual | 302 |
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The Pollution Concept and Color Symbolism of | 163 |
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