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Mary gardens combine reverence with love of plants and flowers
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xAt the dawn of human civilization, nature was distinctly female.
Small statues of heavy, pregnant women were the first human symbols
of nature's fertility found in archeological digs. But while plants
and animals are female, the Earth itself was thought to be male.
The embodiment of nature became a series of nature goddesses. Many
of the plants devoted to them included female names. Maidenhair fern
was first known as Freyje's hair in the Iceland. Its botanical name,
"Adiantum capillus-veneris," indicates it was later sacred to Venus.
Today, it is a plant of the Virgin Mary.
These female names ...
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