Tree in the Door's Fauna and Flora: Pileus

I happened upon the word, Saturnalia, while reading some desultory things (rense!), which I do now and then...these sites do provoke, but also somehow help me latch on to curios!, and having been tugged to Saturnalia, I then happened on Pileus...

I don't for the most part name hereabout Critters with their scientific names (linnaeus!), but since these names are made from long gone languages, Latin and Ancient Greek, the names often have something of those times and cultures...I'm partial to the Bronze Age!...anyway, reading on the Saturnalia, I happened on the word "Pileus", which is Hat, and of course the root of Pileated, or Hatted, and Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus! See links... These Hats were worn during the Saturnalia, cone shaped they are, and referred to as Freedom Hats, and during the Saturnalia some cultural norms were suspended...don't know but nowadays such suspension is year round!

Maybe I can find Dryocopus...brb... The name Dryocopus comes from the Greek drus, an oak tree and kopos, a cutter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryocopus

The Granite Monolith beside Nevada Falls is named Liberty Cap, but I don't know if that was because of its cone shape, which it has!

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LIBERTY CAP has had four other names, Mt. Frances, Gwin’s Peak, Bellow’s Butte (after a Boston clergyman) and Mt. Broderick. It is the glaciated peak on the north side of the Merced River next to Nevada Fall. When Governor Leland Stanford was visiting Yosemite in 1865, he and James Hutchings visited Nevada Fall. The Governor proclaimed his dislike for all of the names, and, looking at an old fashioned half dollar, supposedly produced by Hutchings, he saw the resemblance between the peak and the cap of liberty on the coin and decided that CAP OF LIBERTY was more appropriate.
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_valley_place_names/#l
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well, I lost it, (and found it!:

Ansel Franklin Hall - 1920 - ‎Yosemite Valley (Calif.)

The old register, which dates back to 1871, is in the Yosemite Museum. Liberty Cap (Alt. 7072), which the Indians called Mah'ta or "Martyr Mountain," towers) ...but one site had an Indian name, Ma'hta. or like, which translated to "Martyr", which suggests a story...landmarks were part of stories to the Indians, I'd say, and ancient Greeks as well...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus_(hat)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileated_Woodpecker

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According to German biologist Ernst Haeckel, the question of man's origin began with Linnaeus. He helped future research in the natural history of man by describing humans just as he described any other plant or animal.^[133] He was the first person to place humans in a system of biological classification^[
^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus}
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^{And, I googled google images "liberty cap coin" and couldn't find the "half dollar" noted, but it was a common motif on early coins, and likely back then, well...brb...}

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Actually, the Liberty cap as an emblem of liberty was used by the Sons of Liberty as early as 1765. During the American Revolution, particularly in the early years, many of the soldiers who fought for the Patriot cause wore knitted stocking liberty caps of red, sometimes with the motto "Liberty" or "Liberty or Death" knitted into the band. This style of cap was traditional in the North East (having been popular with the French Voyagers) and became immensely popular during the Revolution.

and earlier in text of origin for quote:

I believe the French still call it a Scythian cap (see below). It was one of the most notable items of ancient Scythian costume. After the decline of Scythian power, the Athenians used Scythian police. The Romans kept the Scythian police after they conquered Greece, and that is probably how the cap entered European consciousness. How the cap cropped up in 18th century France, I don't know. (But I'm curious.)
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-cap.html
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Comes to mind here, is Pileated Woodpeckers red Topknot! And wearing such a cap at Saturnalia, insomuch it was what the Scythian Police wore (a speculation), makes a fit with the 'reversals' of norm at Saturnalia...

And the Liberty Cap resembles the Phrygian Cap, which I learn from this forum thread, is what the Trojan Paris is depicted wearing...cool thread...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AncientBibleHistory/message/48544

And here I find the coin!

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The cap's last appearance on circulating coinage was the Walking Liberty Half Dollar, which was minted through 1947 (and reused on the current bullion American Silver Eagle).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap
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and this in that passage too...

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In 1854, when sculptor Thomas Crawford was preparing models for sculpture for the United States Capitol, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later to be the President of the Confederate States of America) insisted that a Phrygian cap not be included on a statue of Freedom on the grounds that, "American liberty is original and not the liberty of the freed slave". The cap was not included in the final bronze version that is now in the building.^[12]
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^{hmmph...statue needs Cap....}