Sacred Plants of the Gods
For even more fun, here are some sacred plants!
Aphroditê: Red-Rose, Poppy, Anemone, Apple, Daffodil, Myrtle, Lettuce, Myrrh and Pomegranate.
Apollôn: Laurel, Cypress, Palm-Tree, Larkspur and Mytle.
Arês: Ash.
Artemis: Cypress, Laurel, Chaste-Tree, Walnut-Tree, Ceder, and Amaranth-Flower.
Athênê: Ivy, Olive-Tree and Cypress.
Dêmêtêr: Wheat, Barley, Mint, Fig-Tree, Chaste-Tree and Poppy.
Dionysos: Grape-Vine, Reed, Ivy, Pine, Elm, Fig-Tree, Fennel, Cinnamon, Silver Fir and Bindweed.
Hêrê: Apples, Pomegranates, Chaste-Tree and Oranges.
Hermês: Crocus and Greek Strawberry-Tree.
Poseidôn: Pine, Celery and Rock-Rose.
Zeus: Oak, White-Poplar, Olive-Tree, Ash and Celery.
Haidês: Asphodel, White Poplar and Mint.
Hekatê: Asphodel.
Hestia: Chaste-Tree.
Hêlios: Frankincense-Tree, Black Poplar and Heliotrope.
Newborn hedgehog.
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi
I bet she tastes like honey. She is warm to the touch and I want to tell her how much her eyes are like the ocean. She feels like I could fall in love again.
How hard it is to sleep
in the middle of life.
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