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Subject: [OM] Re: IMG: Nathan's P AD 21: señoritas i n act ion
From: usher99@xxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:49:50 -0400
Thanks for the botany/history lesson. I'll not soon forget the name of 
that flower. An unresolved issue, however, is what would the Unitarians 
have named the flower?
Mike


Jez Cunningham wrote:
> In England we call them 'Passion Flower'
>
As with so many other older European names, it's Christian thing.

""Passion" does not refer to love, but to the Passion of Christ on the
cross. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries
discovered this flower and adopted its unique physical structures as
symbols of Crucifixion. For example: the radial filaments which can
number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower represent the
Crown of Thorns. The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful
apostles. The top 3 stigmata represent the 3 nails and the lower 5
anthers represent the 5 wounds. The flower has been given names related
to this symbolism throughout Europe since that time. In Spain, it is
known as /Espina de Cristo/ (Christ's Thorn). In Germany it was once
known as /Muttergottes-Schuzchen/ (Mother-of-God's Star)."
- Wikipedia

Moose

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