The Legend Of The Lamb Plant (Scythian Lamb)

USDA ^ | 3-23-2007 | Judith J Ho

[blam]

The oldest use of cotton ever discovered is in the Indus Valley, 5,500 years old.
BTW, cotton fibers are hollow.

[blam]

FYI.

[ansel12]

I'm just glad the authors middle name wasn't Alice.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A time when men wore upturned shoes...

[blam]

There are 500,000 fibers in one cotton boll.

[blam]

The Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary

[blam]

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Fred Nerks]

For in his path he sees a monstrous birth, The Borametz arises from the earth Upon a stalk is fixed a living brute, A rooted plant bears quadruped for fruit, ...It is an animal that sleeps by day and wakes at night, though rooted in the ground, to feed on grass within its reach around.

Now why would I think of Al Gore while I was reading this? Notice, throughout the article, the quest for the borametz was an occupation of 'intellectuals' - any lowly farmer, plowing the soil with a wooden plow and sowing seeds would have recognized tales of the boramtiz as an impossibility.

[Salamander]

People used to think that asbestos was salamander wool.

[another critter with a wealth of global mythology behind it]

[blam]

"People used to think that asbestos was salamander wool."

Thanks, didn't know that.

[Salamander]

Funny when you think about it, really.

When was the last time you saw a fuzzy salamander?....;)

Alchemy is about transition. A salamander is the transitional stage of the dying Phoenix in the flames - who becomes a salamander - then rises from the ashes. The salamander could be charmed by witches, or Magi, to start fires wherever they wanted. The mythical salamander resembles the real salamander somewhat in appearance, but makes its home in fires, the hotter the better. (Similarly, the salamander in heraldry is shown in flames, but is otherwise depicted as a generic lizard.) Early travelers to China were shown garments which, or so they were told, had been woven of wool from the salamander - the cloth was completely unharmed by fire. The garments had actually been woven from asbestos. Later Paracelsus suggested that the salamander was the elemental of fire. These myths originate in Europe from the fire salamander, 'Salamandra', which hibernates in and under rotting logs. When logs were brought indoors and put on the fire, the animals mysteriously appeared from the flames.

[blam]

Those guys (Salamanders) run around my deck all the time in the summer.

[Salamander]

They're obviously up to no good.

Beware!



LOL!

[blam]

"They're obviously up to no good. "

Nah. I like'm, they eat a lot of insects.

[blam]

Ancient Lizard Offers Evolutionary Clues

[fso301]

bump because I might want to read this again when less alcohol is in my system

[Salamander]

Some article that Discover magazine put out a while back said that the first land-dwelling animals were salamanders.

That makes all of you my evolutionary descendants.

[I am your Overlord!]


LOL!