"Preston Adams" <preston.adams@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>A land of flowing milk and honey
>
> As a boy I often wondered how the land could "flow" other than rivers,
> volcanoes, glaciers etc ?
>
> Milk does not just flow because you put a bucket under the udder of a
> cow - you have to milk the cow.
>
> The symbolism for milk is the cow.And as we all know a cow does not only
> give milk, but meat, leather, cheese etc
>
> Honey does not come from the land itself, but from bees mostly in trees
> and has to be worked , harvested and extracted.Also bees give beeswax
for
> lighting candles and other domestic uses
>
> Neither milk nor honey are realy good culinary foods. Milk goes off in a
> few days and honey has a long shelf life-
>
> There is no country, nation or comunity that has honey on its flag. We
do
> find in some remote villages and communes and coats of armsin the Alpine
> regions also Ukraine which represent honey in the form of bees buzzing
> around a bee hive. After all ask a ten year old child to draw either
honey
> or milk and he woud draw a hive and a cow ...
>
> To my knowledge, I suppose the closest one coud get is the Lebanese Flag
> with a Cedar Tree, which could eventualy insinuate feral bee swarms and
> consequently honey.
>
> Otherwise we will find Vinland (the land of wine), Waadtland (the land
of
> forests) Rhineland (river rhine) Poland (land of the polish people)
>
> So I often wondered what this was all about and I came to the following
> conclution, that since the Old Testament talks about Men and Women, it
> came to my mind that it was in fact using a combination of items to
> represent something more profound and closer to our hearts.
>
> If the milk represents the male life giving white sperm (Milk) and the
> female exuding her "honey dew" we have a perfect description of
fertility
> , happiness, peace, prosperity
>
> Anybody have any better ideas ?
> Preston
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on earth are you rattling on about?? This entire post was like on
long
incoherent stream of consciousness........
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