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In part two of Eternal Treblinka, Patterson draws direct connections to the industrialization of animal slaughter and the Holocaust [1] Patterson cites German Jewish philosopher, Theodor Adorno, who he claims said “Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.” [7] However, this quote is apocryphal, and there is no evidence Adorno said ...
ATWA (an acronym for Air, Trees, Water, Animals and All The Way Alive) is the ecological belief system propounded by Charles Manson, who was later convicted of conspiracy to commit murder as the leader of the communal Manson Family. ATWA names the interrelated life-support systems of the Earth.
Saints and animal/plant life. A number of Christian saints have anecdotes and stories about them in relation to animals or plants. In some cases they appeared to possess miraculous powers to speak with animals. Among examples of such supposed stories include the following.
Artemis, goddess of the hunt, the dark, the light, the moon, wild animals, nature, wilderness, childbirth, virginity, fertility, young girls, and health and plague in women and childhood; Aurae, nymphs of the breezes; Chloris, goddess of flowers; Cronus, god of the harvest; Cybele, Phrygian goddess of the fertile earth and wild animals
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
This view had theological foundations and roots in Greek philosophers such as Aristotle. All things were created for the benefit and pleasure of man. Wild animals, birds and fish are God's gift to all men. Plants were created by God for the sake of animals and animals for the sake of men and thus humans may lawfully kill animals.
The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The great chain of being (from Latin scala naturae 'ladder of being') is a concept derived from Plato , Aristotle (in his Historia Animalium ), Plotinus and Proclus . [ 4 ]
The garden is teeming with male and female nudes, together with various animals, plants, and fruits. [27] The setting is not the paradise shown in the left panel, nor is it based in the terrestrial realm. [28] Fantastic creatures mingle with the real; otherwise ordinary fruits appear engorged to a gigantic size.