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The Folk-lore of Plants
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T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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Then,
again,
turning
to
Bible
history,[14]
the
denunciations
of
tree-worship
are
very
frequent
and
minute,
not
only
in
connection
with
the
worship
of
Baal,
but
as
mentioned
in
2
Kings
ix.:
"And
they
(the
children
of
Israel)
set
themselves
up
images
and
groves
in
every
high
hill,
and
under
every
green
tree."
These
acts,
it
has
been
remarked,
"may
be
attributable
more
to
heretical
idolatrous
practices
into
which
the
Jews
had
temporarily
fallen
in
imitation
of
the
heathen
around
them,
but
at
the
same
time
they
furnish
ample
proof
of
the
existence
of
tree
and
grove
worship
by
the
heathen
nations
of
Syria
as
one
of
their
most
solemn
rites."
But,
from
the
period
of
King
Hezekiah
down
to
the
Christian
era,
Mr.
Fergusson
finds
no
traces
of
tree-worship
in
Judea.
In
Assyria
tree-worship
was
a
common
form
of
idolatrous
veneration,
as
proved
by
Lord
Aberdeen's
black-stone,
and
many
of
the
plates
in
the
works
of
Layard
and
Botta.[15]
Turning
to
India,
tree-worship
probably
has
always
belonged
to
Aryan
Hinduism,
and
as
tree-worship
did
not
belong
to
the
aboriginal
races
of
India,
and
was
not
adopted
from
them,
"it
must
have
formed
part
of
the
pantheistic
worship
of
the
Vedic
system
which
endowed
all
created
things
with
a
spirit
and
life--a
doctrine
which
modern
Hinduism
largely
extended[16]."
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