A beautiful fruitful garden believed to be somewhere in the middle east possibly North Africa, has been known as the start of a great war, a love story and demise. A god made garden. A place where a golden fruit was grown on a tree and started the great war. Many have debated rather the war was an actual war or one that was depicted by great poets. Poets who talked about being moral and just. Poets who talked about life as it was seen in their culture. Can you name a garden that involves love, demise, a war, humanity, god, morals and a fruit that exposes the demise?
If you are like most people in this day of age you probably have named a very particular garden supposed to be in the Middle East possibly even North Africa. A garden where God walked amongst Man and Woman. A fruitful garden that came to be known as the Garden of Eden. Where Man and Woman were fruitful and the demise of Man and Woman caused a great spiritual war. A moral war about ethics and against the sin and demise that plagued the world.
Though you are correct in your assumption the first paragraph was actually not in reference to the Garden of Eden written in Genesis. I was not referencing the Spiritual War. I was actually speaking of a fruitful garden somewhere in the Middle East/North Africa known as The Garden of the Hesperides. It is the garden that produced a golden fruit. Often depicted as an apple but has also been argued to be an orange. The golden fruit was tossed into a dinner of the gods inscribed “To the Fairest”. The gods being jealous of each other and thought to be better than each other waged a war amongst themselves using Man as their pawns in the war over this fruit. The war we are speaking of is the Trojan War.
This war has been argued about and debated rather it actually existed or if it was a work of myths. Written by poets to relate to their culture and teach a lesson of morality. It has been written by poets such as Homer and many poets that wrote what is known as the Cyclic Epics. We will go more into what these 5 books are and what they mean today in later blog posts. For your future reading understand that there are 5 books in the Cyclic Epics as there are 5 books in the Bible that involve the death of a hero. Keep it in mind as we begin to look at the history of the Bible and go into more detail of the Greek and Roman mythologies.
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