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Bone Hardener
Bone Hardener
Ingredients:
100g leek provides 10g inulin, more than the amount from 14 medium-sized bananas of
100g each.
Directions:
THE ORIGIN OF PARADISE AND THE BEGINNING OF HERB
GARDENS
The Greeks wrote of fine pleasure parks all over the lands of the Medes and Persians,
of such size and beauty that there was a saying that they had been founded by the
legendary Assyrian Queen Semiramis. The soldier and historian Xenophon (c.430–
354 BCE) wrote that Socrates told his pupils: “Everywhere the Persian king is
zealously cared for, so that he may find gardens wherever he goes; their name is
Paradise, and they are full of all things fair and good that the earth can bring forth.
It is here that he spends the greatest part of his time, except when the season
forbids.” This is the first recorded mention of “paradise” in any Greek narrative. The
Persian Prince Cyrus the Younger (c.424-401 BCE) showed the Greek Lysander the
paradise of his palace at Sardis. Lysander marveled at the beautiful “shade trees” and
fruit trees, the prettiness of the rows of flowers and the many sweet fragrances around
the pathways. Cyrus, the son of Emperor Darius, then told Lysander that he himself had
designed the paradise, and had even planted some of the trees himself. As part of their
education, young Persian princes and nobles were taught the art of gardening and
horticulture.
From accounts and monumental inscription we find that these Persian paradises were
originally hunting-parks, with fruit-trees grown for food, just as in their Babylonian-
Assyrian predecessors. They were in fact “garden palaces,” with vast colonnades
open to walled green spaces surrounding them, and “throne rooms” overlooking
reflecting pools and groves of trees. They were thus fertile, cultivated, enclosed areas
in a wilderness. Indeed, in Old Persian pairi-daeza means “a walled space.” The
Greeks adapted the word as paradeisos to describe the gardens of the Persian empire,
and Greek translations of the Bible used this same word as the term for both the
Garden of Eden and Heaven. For the course of much of human history, the entire
natural world has been charged with meaning, with gods being identified everywhere:
in the water, flowers, trees, sky etc. Human existence had come to depend upon
agriculture, so particularly powerful gods and goddesses resided in water, the sun,
trees and plants. The Mesopotamian idea of an everlasting, ever-fruitful paradise was
already old by the times of the Achaemenid kings of Persia (559–329 BCE). Fragments
of the earliest known writing, from Sumer in Mesopotamian around 2800 BCE, include
a poem describing the creation of such a paradise, ordered by the god of water and
provided by the sun god. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (c.2150 BCE) describes an
“immortal” garden centered on a sacred tree standing by a holy fountain. King
Sennacherib (c.705–681 BCE) built a garden with canals, ponds, vines, fruits and
spices at Assyria’s capital of Nineveh. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also in
modern Iraq) were sometimes called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, and were
probably built by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BCE. He may have built this tiered
Ingredients:
100g leek provides 10g inulin, more than the amount from 14 medium-sized bananas of
100g each.
Directions:
THE ORIGIN OF PARADISE AND THE BEGINNING OF HERB
GARDENS
The Greeks wrote of fine pleasure parks all over the lands of the Medes and Persians,
of such size and beauty that there was a saying that they had been founded by the
legendary Assyrian Queen Semiramis. The soldier and historian Xenophon (c.430–
354 BCE) wrote that Socrates told his pupils: “Everywhere the Persian king is
zealously cared for, so that he may find gardens wherever he goes; their name is
Paradise, and they are full of all things fair and good that the earth can bring forth.
It is here that he spends the greatest part of his time, except when the season
forbids.” This is the first recorded mention of “paradise” in any Greek narrative. The
Persian Prince Cyrus the Younger (c.424-401 BCE) showed the Greek Lysander the
paradise of his palace at Sardis. Lysander marveled at the beautiful “shade trees” and
fruit trees, the prettiness of the rows of flowers and the many sweet fragrances around
the pathways. Cyrus, the son of Emperor Darius, then told Lysander that he himself had
designed the paradise, and had even planted some of the trees himself. As part of their
education, young Persian princes and nobles were taught the art of gardening and
horticulture.
From accounts and monumental inscription we find that these Persian paradises were
originally hunting-parks, with fruit-trees grown for food, just as in their Babylonian-
Assyrian predecessors. They were in fact “garden palaces,” with vast colonnades
open to walled green spaces surrounding them, and “throne rooms” overlooking
reflecting pools and groves of trees. They were thus fertile, cultivated, enclosed areas
in a wilderness. Indeed, in Old Persian pairi-daeza means “a walled space.” The
Greeks adapted the word as paradeisos to describe the gardens of the Persian empire,
and Greek translations of the Bible used this same word as the term for both the
Garden of Eden and Heaven. For the course of much of human history, the entire
natural world has been charged with meaning, with gods being identified everywhere:
in the water, flowers, trees, sky etc. Human existence had come to depend upon
agriculture, so particularly powerful gods and goddesses resided in water, the sun,
trees and plants. The Mesopotamian idea of an everlasting, ever-fruitful paradise was
already old by the times of the Achaemenid kings of Persia (559–329 BCE). Fragments
of the earliest known writing, from Sumer in Mesopotamian around 2800 BCE, include
a poem describing the creation of such a paradise, ordered by the god of water and
provided by the sun god. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (c.2150 BCE) describes an
“immortal” garden centered on a sacred tree standing by a holy fountain. King
Sennacherib (c.705–681 BCE) built a garden with canals, ponds, vines, fruits and
spices at Assyria’s capital of Nineveh. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also in
modern Iraq) were sometimes called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, and were
probably built by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BCE. He may have built this tiered
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