April 2011
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Botanical name: Origanum Dictamnus (Linn.). Natural order: Other names: Dittany of Crete, Candia, Right Dittany. French name: Dictame de Crete. German names: Kretischer Diptam, Diptamodosten. Italian names: Dittamo Di Creta, Origano di Creta, Dittamo. Turkish names: Girid otu, Mangir otu, Girid Diktami. Under the dominion of: Mercury. Symbolizes: Happiness. Part used: Herb, oil. Natural habitat:...
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In the 1990’s intensive research af dittany took place at MAICH (Mediterranean Agricultural Institute of Chania) in order to ascertain the active agents in the plant and to work out a way to utilize the plant in a way, which was commercially viably. Also at the Institute for Subtropical Plants and Olive Trees experiments are carried out where both dittany and another medical plant, malotira,...
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In the beginning of the 20th century the export of dittany increased. From Chania alone exports reached 7-8 metric tons of dried dittany a year. As the plant was therefore in danger of eradication they began to cultivate it after 1920. First at Kato Poros, east of Argyroupoli. A few years later the cultivation spread to the Archanes area, south of Iraklion, and to the villages around Embaros,...
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Because of the plant’s many health-giving qualities they tried to grow it in Venice as early as in the 15th century, and later other countries tried, but without any success. Even as geographically close as in Athens the attempts to grow dittany failed, as the plant lost its fragrance and colour. The only place outside Crete to grow dittany is on the island of Kythira.
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Dittany is gathered while in bloom, that is to say from May until August, although you find some dittany blooming as late as in December. It was a risky job gathering dittany, because the gatherers, who in Greek are called mazochtádes, erondádes or atitanológi, would often hang from the sheer, sharp rocks.
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The name of the herb is a compound of the two words Dikti and thamnos. Thamnos means ‘shrub’, while Dikti refers to the mountains around the Lassithi Plateau, where Zeus was born. And the myth explains that he was the one who brought the herb to Crete in return for the loving care at his birth. A mantinada says of the plant: Ο έρωντας εφύτρωξε στου Δία το μιτάτο The erondas grew at...
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Dittany of Crete, Origanum dictamnus L. (formerly Amaracus dictamnus Benth. or Amaracus tomentosus Moench.), is one of the best-known healing herbs of folklore. Native to the mountains of Crete (name derived from the Mount Dikti in central Crete) and also called dittany or dictamnus, this perennial plant can reach a height of 0.3 meters. Procumbent white, woolly stems, usually trailing, develop...
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Of particular interest is the flora of the gorges, which reveals a splendid array of wild flowers and shrubs, many of which are rare species and endemic to the island. They have been preserved from human intervention, because access to these areas is difficult and therefore the environment has maintained its original wildness. Here you can see the entire spectrum of species referred to in the...
Shiva Lingam - the stone of love →
Some consider the Shiva Linga stone to be a symbol of adoration at the physical plane. It is thought to be able to help in bringing the devotees to a state of unity with God. Those who possess the knowledge and understanding can use this stone as a divine channel and bring the lower self in contact with their Higher Self.
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The first full moon of spring, however, is usually designated as the Paschal Full Moon or the Paschal Term. Traditionally, Easter is observed on the Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon. So if the Paschal Moon occurs on a Sunday, Easter is the following Sunday.
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Full Pink Moon – April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month’s celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.
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Phanes (Greek: Φάνης, from φαίνω - phainō “I bring to light”), or Protogonos (Greek: Πρωτογόνος, “First-born”), was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition;
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The erotes are a group of winged gods and demi-gods from Classical mythology, associated with love and sex, and part of Aphrodite’s retinue. The collective term ἔρωτες - erotes is simply the plural of ἔρως - eros, or “desire”.
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and their subsequent search for their missing half: “… when [a lover] … is fortunate enough to meet his other half, they are both so intoxicated with affection, with friendship, and with love, that they cannot bear to let each other out of sight for a single instant.”
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“As soon as I had seen her, I was lost. For Beauty’s wound is sharper than any weapon’s, and it runs through the eyes down to the soul. It is through the eye that love’s wound passes, and I now became a prey to a host of emotions…”
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Kāmadeva (Sanskrit: कामदेव) is the Hindu deity of human love[2] or desire. Other names for him include; Atanu (one without a body), Ragavrinta (stalk of passion), Ananga (incorporeal), Kandarpa (“inflamer even of a god”),[3][4] Manmatha (churner of hearts), Manasija (he who is born of mind, a contraction of the Sanskrit phrase Sah Manasah jāta), Madana (intoxicating), Ratikānta (lord...
Dittany of Crete, the gift of Zeus | Precious... →
King Minos, who ruled Crete and lived in the Minoan Palace of Knossos, fell in love with Diktynna and pursued her for a full nine months chasing her along the length of Crete. But Diktynna wanted to remain a virgin and would not give in to Minos’ attentions. He chased her to the edge of a cliff and being trapped, she threw herself off. Fishermen saved her in their nets and a sailor, Andromedes,...
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The word dictamnus is a blending of two words – the first part refers to Dikti, the mountain where Zeus was born and thamnos translates as shrub.
Magic & Dittany of Crete – from the Book of Thoth... →
As the Cretan Diktynna, she wears a wreath made of the magic plant diktamnon, or dictamnus, the evergreen shrub whose contact is said, at the same time, to develop somnambulism and cure finally of it……. she is the goddess who presides over births; and the use of the dictamnus wreath, in association with the moon, shows once more the profound observation of the ancients. This plant is...
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A dittany compress was thought to help expel foreign substances from the body, and dittany was also prized as an aphrodisiac. It was believed to induce abortions in early pregnancy, to ease the pain of childbirth, and to reduce the severity of menstrual cramps. Dittany was also commonly used to treat snakebite.
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Knossos Herbs - Dictamus →
The popular Diktamo as a special warm drink with its aromatic healing properties can be used for anti convulsive, menstrual and tonic. Externally as a poultice on wounds and bruises. Strengthens the heart muscles and arteries. Growing only in Crete Island Greece. The locals called it also “eronda” which means love for its aphrodisiac properties. Popular in Minoan Crete and Ancient...
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(1 Oenothera fruticosa, Shrubby Oenothera 2. Origanum Dictamnus, Dittany of Crete) A beautifully hand colored botanical plate of the Shrubby Oenothera and the Dittany of Crete, by F. Sansom after a drawing by Syndham Edwards (8 x 10 3/4 inches). The plate appoints the artist as well as the engaver. It was originally part of “A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening”,...
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The Green Farmacy | The Herbal Insider →
At a time when the entire Western world is looking forward–to a new year, a new century, a new millennium–I’d like to challenge this nation’s physicians and pharmacists to do just the opposite: look back. It’s my belief that the future of medicine is rooted in the past, before chemists undertook to synthesize synthetic silver bullets for all that ails, and before pharmaceutical companies hitched...
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As such, the beautiful here acts as a medium for erotic activity. But, as we have seen, this mode of presentation contains within itself a provocation beyond itself insofar as it is the visible manifestation of the eidos of the Beautiful. This indicates that the end (purpose, goal) of erotic activity is to gaze upon and intellectually possess the Beautiful qua Form.
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Such bringing forth within the soul, Diotima intimates, is of the highest achievement. How so? What movements are necessary to cultivate this erotic activity? The answer to this is to be found in a certain kind of erotic training of the soul (compare with Phaedrus). (3) Diotima tells the young Socrates that she is now about to initiate him into this erotica , and even more, into the highest...
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Diotima now describes how mortals strive for immortality. In all begetting and bringing forth upon the beautiful there is a kind of making or poiesis (“poetry” in the wide sense of “creating”). In this genesis there is a movement beyond the temporal cycle of birth and decay (207d). Such a movement can occur in three kinds of poiesis: (1) Natural poiesis through sexual...
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To anticipate the significance of this, we should note that for happiness to be truly real, it must possess the eternal(i.e., the immortal). Mortals can achieve this both in the earthly and transcendent sense. The former involves the begetting of children. The latter involves a begetting in the soul which strives for the Forms. Only in this last case do mortals find true happiness.
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With this we have a reformulation of the dual notion of Socratic Ignorance and Socratic Wisdom from within the perspective of Eros. Eros becomes expressive of that human condition that is aware of itself and strives towards wisdom from an awareness of a lack within itself. Note that it is here that the very structure of Eros involves a provocation upwards (towards the object of its desire) and as...
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After May 1, when the tourist season kicks in to full swing, Crete is a huge tourist destination in addition to over 600,000 residents. So, if you want to visit when the crowds are low, April is just fantastic. Although tourists come from around the world to visit, the top visitors are residents of Athens looking for a getaway, followed by Germans, and then English. All other nationalities make up...
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