Mercy College
Bronx Campus Room 113
50 Antin Place
Bronx, NY.
For further information call: (718) 518-7710 or (914) 946-6735.
David Elyha, Storyteller, "The World Tree."
Stories from Guatemala (The Popul Vuh), Sumeria (Inanna's tree throne), Norse,
Greece (Odysseus bedroom built around a tree), Native American (Iroquois sky
tree), Siberia (Shaman world tree).
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Wednesday, October 7, 10:30-noon
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Thursday, October 8, 10:30 a.m.-noon
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Boria Sax, Ph.D., "The Tree of Knowledge."
This slide-lecture looks at ways in which people have depicted the Garden of
Eden, the tree of knowledge and the forbidden fruit. These representations
cover a vast historical range from ancient Mesopotamia to Medieval Europe and
the contemporary United States. Also see "The Mystic Geography of
the Woods."
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John Mahon, Ph.D., "Trees: Links to the Classical
Past."
This slide-lecture examines the historical, cultural, scientific and folkloric
significance of trees in the Greco-Roman world. These include Homer's oaks and
pines, as Hesoid's inspirational ash and the mythological landscapes of Romans
such as Virgil.
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Saturday, October 10, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
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Funded by the New York Council for the Humanities as Part of State Humanities
Month.
Additional Funding Provided by the NYCH and the NEH.
Events are Free to the Public! Refreshments will be Served!
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