Capitolo 56
of Confucius: his history dies away toward what was man first it is
music written in forgotten China. In the first century of the
One were Christian of the most splendid of the old Buddhist
sculptures, boys are represented as striking the drum in the adoration of
the sacred tree--once more showing as music it passed in the service
of the faith of forest.
He touched the cornucopia; and he traced again his/her history to the ram
horn--the primitive cup of libation, used for a cup that he/she drinks and used
also to pour out the latest product of the grapevine in honor of the grapevine
it--the first wine glass of the forest.
He touched the fruits and the flowers on the tree: these were more old men
of everybody, he perhaps said; for before the worshipper of forest had learned
to mould or to manufacture some offers of his/her his/her own ability, he was able to
the less harbors to the divine tree and hangs on him the flower in spring,
the wild fruit in autumn.
He held above up to only three things on the tree you/he/she had gone away
uninterpreted; the tinsel, the masks and the dolls. He told her that
he had left these to the last one for a reason: apparently they was the
more banal but really the most serious; for from he/she wants to say more anymore than them
you/he/she could clearly be traced the presence of great law that crosses the
progress of humanity.
He attracted his/her attention to the tinsel that has covered the tree, while draping him/it
as a yellow musk. It was of any value, he said, but during
centuries had happened in forest
adoration: an once universal custom to decorate the tree with everything
more jewel to the giver in token of his/her sacrifice and
abnegation. Also in Jeremiah it is an account of the load of the
I plant with trees sacred with gold and ornaments. Herodotus reports that when
Xerxes was invading Lydia, the March he saw a divine tree and it had
it honored with gilded bathrobes and gifts. Livy narrates that when
Killed Romulus his/her enemy on the place of the Eternal City, him hung rich