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A Forest for the Future
Your first subheading Get to know the forest makes me think of the American Chestnut what with the trials of ash and elm trees on your, eastern (Atlantic) pond side.
Would there have been a time when the British Isles imported American chestnut ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/24/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
The second symbol, Numbers, makes me wonder about the number 1 in fairy tales.
It seems that 1 would be a desirable, good, kind number because of there being one hero for each such damsel in distress as Cinderella and Snow White.
Would it not ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/24/2023
A Forest for the Future
I do not knowbthe insects in detail,but the Ash borer is one.
frankbeswick, on 07/22/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
The Tocharian and Gaelic languages belong to the Indo European group which originated in Anatolia, so there is ban affinity, but they do not have a specially definable connection.
frankbeswick, on 07/22/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
The bedroom and chapel were on the ground floor..The rooms upstairs were of no specific purpose, but there I'd no evidence of animal use.
frankbeswick, on 07/22/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
I do not have access to the Barber book at this moment.
But my memory is that she listed among the mysteries of the light-eyed, light-skinned, slender, tall Urumchi mummies of the Tarim River Basin between India and China that they speak a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/22/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
Thank you, DerdriuMarriner, for being so involved. You opened a lot of questions.
About number three: it's so universally present we should never limit it to one meaning (good or bad, for instance). The same is true for numerous symbols around ...
Tolovaj, on 07/22/2023
A Forest for the Future
The third paragraph to the second subheading brings up predatory insects that feed on ash and sycamore. It considers that "Not all the trees are native. The nurseries grow sycamore and black poplar, not native, but necessary. To gardeners ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/22/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
The first paragraph to the third subheading Description of the house gives that house a ground floor and one storey.
Were the bedroom and chapel rooms on the ground floor or on the one and only storey?
What would the level without the bedroom ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/22/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
The first and the second paragraphs to the second symbol, Numbers, contain information that superficially may not mesh well with one another.
Three defers to goodness as does seven, apart the mismatched seven deadly sins.
The second paragraph ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/22/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
St John of Damasus said that she survived thirteen years after Jesus, but wanted to see Jerusalem before she died, so she was taken back to the city and died there.
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2023
A Forest for the Future
Transhumance involves taking animals to mountain pastures in summer, but bringing them down in early Fall. They would be kept near the farm in winter.
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
Horses are an Irish passion, but the geographical distance between the Irish and the
Tarim river people's implies a large difference in time between the contacts between the people's.I think that the Trojan connection is a red herring, as ...
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
Elizabeth Wayland Barber associates ancient Irish, Tarim River Basin peoples and Trojans with perfecters of horse-raising and textile-making, with residents near salt licks and with settlers of strategic sites with stunning views.
She ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/21/2023
A Forest for the Future
The second paragraph to your first subheading, Get to know the forest, describes transhumance farming in Welsh mountain pastures.
Where did they and their animals go the rest of the year? Were they still on the mountain west sides? What was the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/21/2023