O there is a beautiful cedar Altai legend …
Residents Altaja had a very special relationship with cedar. This tree was considered divine and kept it. And when they rested under it, or night, tried to make is that it does not harm. It is not at all surprising. Cedar is a tree that they were fed, dressed, warmed and reliably protects from disaster. Cedar – a living being …
… Once upon a time, returning from a hunting trip through the silent, cedar taiga, tired hunter is stuck under the old cedar branched and fell asleep. The cedar was so old, that was all the zigzags and spikes, covered with moss, and čvornovatih branches, and on earth, beneath the canopy, there were needles that are accounted for years … Hunter was so tired that not even a tent stretched, nor was preparing food. Laid on a beautiful bed of needles and sleep tight.
Before the dawn, awakened by someone moaning and quiet conversation. The hunter was astonished, and began listening. It was a conversation between an old cedar, and another, but the young who grew up next to him. The old cedar was sobbing, complaining of a young, how power is left and how he can no longer be held.
Young Cedar seemingly stunned him said, “Well, not falling, it spoke to me yesterday?”. “Yes, – answered the old cedar, – yesterday I was quite prepared to fall, but below me lay down to sleep tired man . I could kill him. “
Surprised the hunter who would feel sorry for the old cedar, rose, firmly embraced once strong tree, thank him for his hospitality, and move aside.
Teetered up the old cedar and with a sigh of relief upon the ground. Once again, he bowed a hunter and went on …
Since ancient times, the story of the Holy Tree, whose roots strengthens land and washes up in the holy waters of the underground empire, and whose snake wrapped around a tree – a symbol of the spiral movement of energy, while its crown is directed towards the Cosmos …
In our earliest known civilization, the Sumerians – the wood is cedar.
Mother Creator of the world said: “sparks the fire of Thy Spirit can provide salvation, but who will collect them and allow us to use them?” The creator said: “Trees and grass will preserve My sparks, but when the sparks fall off, some cedar and his sister during the year receivers kept the fire” …
Kedar, as the Holy Tree of Life – the eldest respected, and najzagonentnija lost in centuries of civilizations, which has made life throughout the modern world – the civilization of Sumer.
Holders of secret religious knowledge Sumer believed that God created the cedar as a symbol of power, greatness and immortality that would serve as a collector of cosmic energy on Earth. And because he’s got a sacred right to have different personal names, depending on the place where the growing of purposes – religious, izleciteljske, construction, even if he was considered a jewel and was more expensive than gold. It confirms the clay tables around 7000 years old which were found in archaeological excavations of the old Sumerian empire.
The head of the Sumerian pantheon, the God Ea, who was the symbol of pure water was also a sponsor of the cedar. Ea was the source of the unattainable and hidden arts and secret knowledge that he could bestow dignity of man.And most importantly it gave the people – it was life. He belonged to all the precious metals, and it was considered the patron of blacksmiths, craftsmen, Culture, Arts and Science. Such was the Cedar – in addition to Ea, and he meant beauty (water in Sumerian meant something magnificent and beautiful), stability, immortality (some Kedrova can live up to 2000 years), health (ie, life), strength, flowering (the development of culture, art and science), divine pride and greatness. Search cedar in old world was so great that the oldest “Epic of Gilgamesh,” mentions the monster, which keeps the forest of cedar onostranih assault. Divine cedar baton Sumerians were transferred to other nations.
Wood details the sarcophagus of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (1356 – 1350 BC), and also many items from his tomb were made of cedar.
Although these findings are older than three thousand years, it is surprising that they remained in excellent condition because it is not only preserved structures made of wood, but also subtle, delicate fragrance. In ancient Egypt, cedar resin was one of the most important ingredient for mummification balms. Thanks to cedar oil, until now the preserve priceless Egyptian papyrus.
The Phoenicians built galleys of cedar, and Assyrians, it was also used. Fleet of cedar was built and the legendary biblical king Solomon, who is also the Temple of Jerusalem and his enormous imperial castle made only of cedar, and the precious material that had to twenty cities. Gofer wood, from whom Noah built his ark – in things was to Bahreinskih Cedar Island.
Inevitable attribute of sanctification emperors of old Iranian government, Horasane, was a glass of cedars resin. For druids, the mysterious forest, Celtic, pagan priests – a glass Kedrova resin – hedges, called the moment of their lives.
