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	Sacred Fig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sacred Fig Ficus religiosa, also known as Bo (from the Sinhalese Bo), Pipal (Peepul) or Ashwattha tree, is a species of banyan fig native to India, southwest China and Indochina east to Vietnam.
		The Bodhi tree and the Sri Maha Bodhi propagated from it are famous specimens of Sacred Fig.
		This plant is considered "sacred" by the followers of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, and hence the name 'Sacred Fig' was given to it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacred_Fig (371 words)

	Ficus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fig wasps grow in caprifigs but not in the other because the female trees' female flower part is too long for the wasp to successfully lay her eggs in them.
		The figs were grown some 11,400 years ago, and because they were of a mutation which could not reproduce normally, it is proposed that they may have been planted and cultivated intentionally, one thousand years before the next crops domesticated (wheat and rye).
		Figs and other dried fruit were measured for their antioxidant content.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fig (913 words)

	Fig - MSN Encarta
		The small flowers of the fig plant are borne on the inner surface of a fleshy, hollow organ called a receptacle, and the fruit is the result of further growth of the receptacle.
		To ensure pollination in fig orchards, flower branches of the wild fig are suspended in the vicinity of cultivated fig trees, a process known as caprification.
		The common commercial fig is classified as Ficus carica, the sycamore fig as ficus sycomorus, and the pipal, or sacred fig, as Ficus religiosa.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565352/Fig.html (483 words)

	Figs - History, Facts, Recipes for fresh figs and dried figs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The fig was such a staple food that Egyptian armies are recorded as having cut down the figs and vines of their enemies, and whole baskets of figs have been discovered among the tomb offerings of dynastic kings.
		Figs were one of the crops that became known in China during the T'ang dynasty which rose to power in the 700's BC.
		Figs are among the tastiest and most versatile of fruits, happy in company with wine, honey, sugar, thin proscuitto, sweet spices such as ginger, cinnamon and cloves and the sharpness of lemon and orange.
	inmamaskitchen.com /FOOD_IS_ART_II/food_history_and_facts/fig_walk.html (1138 words)

	Trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the Nemean grove dedicated to Zeus, a sacred child was commemorated whose characteristic pointing gesture is evocative of that of the infant Buddha.
		Sacred trees and also poles, the essence of a tree, are thought of as axles about which the sacred universe revolves.
		The presence of a particularly bountiful tree may have given rise to the idea that a deity is present who offers her blessings in the form of the fruit, as in the case of the tamarind tree where Puliyidaivalaiyamman is worshipped, or the kadamba tree that is associated with a deity called Kadambariyamman.
	www.khandro.net /nature_trees.htm (5823 words)

	Sacred Places: Trees and the Sacred
		The Sacred Cave], the temple's outer sanctuary of terraced gardens recreated the Paradise of Amon, an earthly palace for the Sun-god in imitation of the myrrh terraces of Punt, which was the legendary homeland of the gods.
		In the land of Colophon in Ionia was a grove of ash-trees sacred to Apollo (VII, 5.
		The oak tree was also sacred to Zeus, especially the tree at the sanctuary of Zeus in Dodona which also served as an oracle; it would seem the rustling of the leaves was regarded as the voice of Zeus and the sounds interpreted by priestesses.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /sacredplaces/trees.html (2614 words)

	News
		Ancient reverence for the fig is indicated by the belief that a priestess could tame and lead to the sacrificial alter any bull, not matter how wild, simply by tying a branch of the wild fig about his neck.
		Figs are mentioned in Homer's Iliad, as well as the Odyssey; by Aristophanes, Herodotus and Cato; and the fig is reported to have been the favorite fruit of Cleopatra, with the asp that ended her life being brought to her in a basket of figs.
		Figs of sugar candy in the form of a phallus were once sold by peddlers at the autumn festival of a Shinto Shrine in Kyoto, Japan.
	www.calfreshfigs.com /cffgahistory.html (1663 words)

	Birth and Rebirth of the Omaha
		The sacred circle with a central pole is a widespread cosmological concept found on all the inhabited continents.
		The Omaha sacred circle (fig.3) conforms to the general pattern with the most sacred point at the center of the circle the least sacred part at the perimeter marked by the tipis.
		Unlike the Sacred Pole or the White Buffalo Hide, the pipes of the Calumet Ceremony are not sacred and are not specially charged to the care of a clan or an individual.
	omahatribe.unl.edu /etexts/rebirth (6548 words)

	More than just a (fig) leaf
		The fig is not particularly refreshing, nor does it have a very strong flavor, but it is a fruit to be eaten slowly and savored, from the luscious mouthfuls of soft, pink flesh to the tiniest edible seeds.
		Figs are grown in many parts of the world and, when fresh, are delicious chilled and served as an hors d’oeuvre with thinly sliced ham or cheese.
		Figs are incomparably better picked straight from the tree at the desired state of ripeness and eaten either hot from the sun or chilled in the refrigerator.
	wwwiz.com /issue34/html/article5.html (2226 words)

	NATURE. The Queen of Trees. Fig Trees \| PBS
		The massive sycomore fig featured in NATURE's THE QUEEN OF TREES is a member of one of the world's most successful group of plants.
		The Buddha is said to have found enlightenment by sitting under the sacred fig, which is also known as the bo or pipal tree.
		Another notable group of figs are the "strangler figs." These tropical, vine-like trees start as tiny seeds that have fallen on the branches or roots of an existing tree of another species.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/nature/queenoftrees/figtrees.html (494 words)

	NutraFIg CheetahBars© \| Our Story
		Figs are one of the most cherished foods in ancient cultures and are mentioned repeatedly in history, not to mention Homeric and Ovidian literature.
		Figs are the fruit that’s mentioned most in the bible – They are prolific in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament Jesus uses figs in his parables.
		While sitting under a fig tree, Siddhartha Gautama had the revelation that formed the foundations of Buddhism, and for Buddhists, the fig tree is revered as the tree of wisdom.
	www.nutrafig.com /cheetahbar/story.html (899 words)

	Ficus Trees in Your Home
		The Sacred Fig is found in many parts of the world and it therefore known by many names.
		The Sacred Fig is considered sacred in many parts of Asia since it is hallowed by followers of the Buddhist, Hindu and Jainism religions.
		Two of the most famous Sacred Figs are the Bodhi tree and the Sri Maha Bodhi.The Bodhi tree is probably a clone descendant of the tree under which Siddhartha Gautama is believed to have received enlightenment.
	www.howtoadvice.com /Preview/Qoiumxb (537 words)

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		The fig tree is sometimes the Tree of Knowledge and combines symbols of both the masculine and feminine principles, the fig leaf being the male, the linga, and the fig the female, the yoni.
		The fig leaf depicts lust and sex: "The figleaf is interpreted as denoting drinking and motion and is supposed to resemble the male sexual organ" (Plutarch).
		The fig tree Ruminalis was worshiped as a symbol of the Goddess herself in the Palatine temple in Rome.
	www.mit.edu /~mbarker/othex/barb/symbol14.txt (848 words)

	Figs Of The Holy Land
		The fig is native to Caria--an ancient region of Asia Minor between the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
		Dried figs could be squeezed into loafs or placed on strings and used as food during long, arduous journeys across the desert.
		Fig trees are part of the poetry and romance of Central America, and they are intimately associated with daily life and are regarded with affection.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ww0501.htm (2094 words)

	The Evil Eye: Chapter X. The Cimaruta, Sirene, Tablets
		His boat is the sacred baris, terminating at the prow in the head of an eagle or vulture, and at the stern in that of a bull-both symbols of the sun.
		181) and that of Mongelli at Naples (Fig.
		355:589 In addition to Isis and her descendants, the lotus is sacred to Lateshmi, who, as the partner of Vishnu, is the goddess of prosperity, or the Indian Abundantia.
	www.sacred-texts.com /evil/tee/tee14.htm (9220 words)

	The Sacred as Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Chapel was sold [4] in 1971 by the nuns, who abandoned it because of, "...the exodus of the population from the centre of the city to the suburbs, declining enrollment, shortage of teaching staff, and [the deterioration of the] older buildings" in the complex.
		I will draw parallels between how high art and ethnographic museums are similar in that they jeopardize the sacred authority of objects which were once part of living spiritual traditions and present them as trophies dedicated to the victory of the dominant, secular culture of which both types of museum are tools.
		The subordination of the sacred's power to that of the secular is also present in the case of the Rideau Street Chapel.
	www.luckymojo.com /duhamel.html (3411 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Fig
		Figs (Ficus) are a genus of about 800 species of woody trees, shrubs and vines in the family Moraceae, native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the warm temperate zone.
		Fig wasps grow in caprifigs; when they mature, they mate, and the females leave in search of immature figs to lay their eggs in.
		For example, in Hawaii, some 60 species of figs have been introduced, but only four of the wasps that ferilize them have been introduced, so only four species of figs produce viable seeds there.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Fig (394 words)

	LINGUIST List 6.146: Sycophant and Sign of the fig
		("Fig" is one of the euphemisms for the female genital.) I know from a Viennese dialect dictionary that the sign used to be current hereabouts, but it is not widely used now, whereas in Italy and esp. in Russia (as to Greece, I forget) it is very current now.
		The story is that at one time it was supposedly against the law to export figs from Athens and SUKOPHANTES often turned in violators of the unpopular law for their own personal gain, these toadies being widely despised.
		It is believed that fig trees just grow on their own without any special care and therefore do not belong to anybody.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/6/6-146.html (1171 words)

	Fig Crossword Puzzle Choices
		Fleshy, hollow fig structure that is lined on the inside with tiny, unisexual male and female flowers.
		Ancient fig of the Holy Land with a common name similar to North American shade tree.
		Fig organ made into an apron and worn to cover one's genitalia.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ww0501cw.htm (364 words)

	Fig Media Incorporated - deejay, videography, photography, event management
		In June, Fig Media collaborated with the talented people at the Chicago Marriott Downtown on the Mag Mile to create a Liquid History honoring and celebrating one of their own.
		Fig Media team was hired on to shoot a performance at Howl at the Moon on Hubbard St.–downtown Chicago.
		Fig Media is currently partnering with the Sacred Heart School in the Edgewater community to teach an after school guerilla filmmaking program with the school’s 7th graders.
	www.figmediainc.com (259 words)

	Buddhist Monks at Bodhi Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Soon thereafter the relics were divided into eight portions and these, along with the jar that held them and the embers of the cremation fire, were then distributed among the rulers of eight territories in which the Buddha had traveled and taught.
		One category concerns those places that were considered sacred prior to the arrival of Buddhism and were later incorporated into the fabric of Buddhist sacred geography.
		The second category of Buddhist sacred site that arose after the passing away of the Buddha were those places associated with the lives or relics of various sages, saints, and teachers in the Buddhist tradition, for example, the well known pilgrimage site of Sanchi in central India.
	www.sacredsites.com /asia/india/buddhist.html (2055 words)

	The sacred fig tree and the North star
		he rope-like hanging aerial roots are characteristic of the Indian fig tree; indeed, it seems that one of the Sanskrit names for this tree, vata, is of Dravidian origin (it is called vatam in a number of Dravidian languages), and that this name is ultimately derived from the Dravidian word vatam 'rope, cord'.
		This Dravidian homophony, linking vata 'Indian fig' and vata 'north', suggests an earlier Indian background also for the classification of trees found in Sanskrit texts which make the Indian fig the "tree of the northern direction".
		Besides the 'single fig leaf'; pictogram on the reverse, these amulets offer another contextual proof for the 'Indian fig tree'; pictogram.
	www.harappa.com /script/parpola11.html (674 words)

	Why Did the Messiah Curse the Figtree?
		A fig tree that failed to bear figs was cursed by Jesus (Matt.21:18-19) PERHAPS as a metaphor for the destruction of the Temple that similarly failed to bear proper religious fruit.
		The SACRED FIG, peepul or bo (F. religiosa), a large tree with heart-shaped, long-pointed leaves on slender footstalks, is much grown in southern Asia....in India it is chiefly planted with a religious object, being regarded as sacred by both Brahmans and Buddhists.
		Held sacred to Bacchus, it was employed in religious ceremonies; and the fig tree that OVERSHADOWED the twin founders of Rome -- Romulus and Remus -- in the wolf's cave, AS AN EMBLEM OF THE FUTURE PROSPERITY OF THE RACE, testified to the high value set upon the fruit by the nations of antiquity.
	www.hope-of-israel.org /figtree.htm (6161 words)

	Juan Li: Images of Earth and Water
		Anything which carries a representation of a deity is considered a sacred object, specially if it has been ritually empowered by a great teacher or came from a holy place.
		Such funeral tsa-tsa by virtue of their sacred shape are treated with respect, and unless they come from the remains of a great teacher, are not kept at home.
		The Mohenjo daro seals may well be the ancestors of stamps in the Indian subcontinent but in turn they are the eastern representatives of a stamping tradition which began in the Middle East as far back as the 6th millennium BC.
	www.asianart.com /li/tsatsa.html (2121 words)

	CG: Introduction to Sacred Geometry: Text, Mandalas and Vidio plus free graphics
		Sacred Geometry is the eternal visual language wrapped around the root concepts of the manifest universe.
		The Universe is Vibration, and the principles of Sacred Geometry are directly correspondent to ALL wave form phenomena.
		Four circles of common radius is the essence of family revealed in Sacred Geometry: Parents (circles 1 and 2) and children (circles 3 and 4), the family heart in the form of a petal.
	www.charlesgilchrist.com /SGEO/SGIntro.html (846 words)

	Joho the Blog: Four phants and the gesture of the fig
		There is a story, recorded by Plutarch, to the effect that in Ancient Athens the export of figs was illegal, and an informer who betrayed an attempt at illegally carrying figs out of the district was called a “fig-shower” or (in Greek) a sycophant.
		meant one who informed against another for exporting figs (which was forbidden by law) or for stealing the fruit of the sacred fig-trees, whether in time of famine or on any other occasion.
		Another old explanation was that fines and taxes were at one time paid in figs, wine and oil, and those who collected such payments in kind were called sycophants because they "presented," publicly handed them in.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/003330.html (481 words)

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