A text only post, and about history, afield from fauna and flora, sort of...and grim, so dear readers, a caution to read on...
I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
It's a curious thing...in studying out Pan (whom I forgot to mention, was from Arcadia in ancient Greece), I happened upon mention of Khidir as being self similar to Melchizedek...
Khidir Melchizedek
But who is the Green Man?
One very popular Qur’anic hero is
al-Khidr, “The Green One,” who appears in Sura 18, al-Kahf, verses 60-82. Seeking Wisdom, Moses travels to meet “One of [God’s] servants”, whom commentators universally identify as al-Khidr (18.65). Moses, in unexpectedly meek mode, begs to follow the Servant as a disciple, despite al-Khidr’s constant warnings that Moses could not stand the pace. He seemingly commits acts of violence and vandalism, to Moses’s horror, until he eventually explains the higher purpose underlying his deeds. His apparent crimes were an illusion that even foxed the great Moses.
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The most important thing we know about al-Khidr is who he is not. He cannot be a Biblical figure who is named elsewhere in the Qur’an, or he would have been identified accordingly. That immediately rules out Moses (obviously), Enoch, Elijah, Jesus, and many other obvious names. Subject to that limitation, he must be a figure known in Jewish and Christian memory as a mysterious being of extreme supernatural power, one of mysterious origins, without known circumstances of birth or death.
Unless I am missing something obvious, that really leaves only one candidate, and that is Melchizedek, King of Salem.
THE GREEN MAN AND THE KING OF SALEM
October 7, 2013 by
Philip Jenkins
On reading that, I got kind of smitten by Moses not being able 'to keep pace' with Khidir, being tricked, as it were, into thinking awful things were happening...that, that kind of deception is in that medieval wisdom story (Saint Eustace/City Girl) I quoted a few posts back, where mention of Khidir is too...and it is very much the sort of deception that is in the story of Job also, which is the reach of my December Raccoons post for sometime, which has been in 'sometime' now for almost three years!...anyway, on reading that site's page, very well made, I diverted to Melchizedek....
and I was about to do post, this the day or so after previous Banias Spring Post, going over just these two, Khidir and Melchizedek, when the vandals in the news made me sit on my typing fingers, and say, wth!
For a snack, I like ruffled potato chips and onion dip, which are handy at the moment...'crunch'....
The vandals are Mormons, and I'd just learned in reading for Khidir and Melchizedek, that Melchizedek is revered by the Mormons....for two reasons it seems....one being that Abraham gave ten per cent of his wealth to Melchizedek, and the second being a patrilineal Mormon priesthood that tracks back its origin to Melchizedek...the Mormon church thrives on the ten per cent its members donate, and I think other Christians, and Jews, and maybe Islamists too, cite Abraham donating to Melchizedek as precedent for congregations donating...and they thrive too, which is as God promises, or as they have it...actually, the promise is, if you give you will receive, and I don't think coinage was in God's conception...'crunch'...
Melheur National Wildlife Refuge is not too far north of Tule Lake, and Klamath Falls...the Eagle Road of some old posts back away....on my visits to Tule, about this time of year, I was one of few about...things being much frozen and cold...but Birds were about aplenty...Eagles!...and the landscape is enchanting...so, so, I take it kind of personal, the vandals and their activities....'crunch'...and have added to my daily news browse 'news oregon'...'crunch'...
My Mormon friend regaled me once with tales of Joseph Smith's bodyguard, and I think I read a pocket book biography he gave me...
Joseph Smith's bodyguard
"But he [Porter Rockwell] was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American Continent."
Porter Rockwell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
one finds such in Afghanistan too, an aside gathered from those who have noted the self similarity of Afghans to Apaches in apparel appearance...
Porter Rockwell hooked up with a contingent of California Volunteers who were in a fight with the Shoshone Indians....
Porter Rockwell Shoshone
Chief Sagwitch and many members of his band allied with the Mormons. Many were baptized and joined LDS Church. Sagwitch later was ordained as an Elder in the Melchizedek priesthood. Members of this band helped to establish the town of Washakie, Utah, named in honor of the Shoshone chief. Most of the remaining members of the Northwestern band of Shoshone built farms and homesteads under LDS Church sponsorship. Their descendants became largely integrated into mainstream LDS society. The Shoshone who did not get involved with this settlement went to the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.
Bear River Massacre
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
hmmph...'crunch'...
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