{"id":13525,"date":"2022-03-30T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/non-classifiee\/the-cedar-of-supreme-justice-and-from-lebanon-the-himalayas-or-the-atlas-mountains\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:51:06","slug":"the-cedar-of-supreme-justice-and-from-lebanon-the-himalayas-or-the-atlas-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/at-the-root\/the-cedar-of-supreme-justice-and-from-lebanon-the-himalayas-or-the-atlas-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cedar of Supreme Justice. And from Lebanon, the Himalayas or the Atlas mountains."},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"tatsu-H1bs8OVD3O tatsu-section  tatsu-bg-overlay   tatsu-clearfix\" data-title=\"\"  data-headerscheme=\"background--dark\"><div class='tatsu-section-pad clearfix' data-padding='{\"d\":\"0px 0px 0px 0px\"}' data-padding-top='0px'><div class=\"tatsu-row-wrap  tatsu-wrap tatsu-row-one-col tatsu-row-has-one-cols tatsu-medium-gutter tatsu-reg-cols  tatsu-clearfix tatsu-S1eo8uEwhu\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-row \" ><div  class=\"tatsu-column  tatsu-bg-overlay tatsu-one-col tatsu-column-image-none tatsu-column-effect-none  tatsu-B1iUuNP2O\"  data-parallax-speed=\"0\" style=\"\"><div class=\"tatsu-column-inner \" ><div class=\"tatsu-column-pad-wrap\"><div class=\"tatsu-column-pad\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-single-image tatsu-module tatsu-image-lazyload tatsu-Bykw_Vw3u  \" ><div class=\"tatsu-single-image-inner \" style=\"width : 1280px;\" ><div class = \"tatsu-single-image-padding-wrap\" style = \"padding-bottom : 46.5625%;\" ><\/div><img class = \"tatsu-gradient-border\" alt = \"A la racine-Ce\u0300dre-Arbre-Durabilite\u0301-Nature\" title = \"A la racine-Ce\u0300dre-Arbre-Durabilite\u0301-Nature\" data-src = \"https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/A-la-racine-Ce\u0300dre-Arbre-Durabilite\u0301-Nature.png\" src =\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  \/><\/div><style>.tatsu-Bykw_Vw3u .tatsu-single-image-inner{border-style: solid;max-width: 100%;}.tatsu-Bykw_Vw3u.tatsu-single-image{transform: translate3d(0px,0px, 0);}<\/style><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class = \"tatsu-column-bg-image-wrap\"><div class = \"tatsu-column-bg-image\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tatsu-overlay tatsu-column-overlay tatsu-animate-none\" ><\/div><\/div><style>.tatsu-row > .tatsu-B1iUuNP2O.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}.tatsu-B1iUuNP2O.tatsu-column > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-column-overlay{mix-blend-mode: normal;}.tatsu-B1iUuNP2O > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-top-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-B1iUuNP2O > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-bottom-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-B1iUuNP2O > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-left-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-B1iUuNP2O > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-right-divider{z-index: 9999;}@media only screen and (max-width:1377px) {.tatsu-row > .tatsu-B1iUuNP2O.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}}@media only screen and (min-width:768px) and (max-width: 1024px) {.tatsu-row > .tatsu-B1iUuNP2O.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}}@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {.tatsu-row > .tatsu-B1iUuNP2O.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tatsu-section-background-wrap\"><div class = \"tatsu-section-background\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tatsu-overlay tatsu-section-overlay\"><\/div><style>.tatsu-H1bs8OVD3O .tatsu-section-offset-wrap{transform: translateY(-0px);}.tatsu-H1bs8OVD3O > .tatsu-bottom-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-H1bs8OVD3O > .tatsu-top-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-H1bs8OVD3O .tatsu-section-overlay{mix-blend-mode: normal;}<\/style><\/div><div  class=\"tatsu-Hk-L7ONDnu tatsu-section  tatsu-bg-overlay   tatsu-clearfix\" data-title=\"\"  data-headerscheme=\"background--dark\"><div class='tatsu-section-pad clearfix' data-padding='{\"d\":\"0px 0px 90px 0px\"}' data-padding-top='0px'><div class=\"tatsu-row-wrap  tatsu-wrap tatsu-row-one-col tatsu-row-has-one-cols tatsu-medium-gutter tatsu-reg-cols  tatsu-clearfix tatsu-Syg87O4vnd\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-row \" ><div  class=\"tatsu-column  tatsu-bg-overlay tatsu-one-col tatsu-column-image-none tatsu-column-effect-none  tatsu-SJI7dEv2d\"  data-parallax-speed=\"0\" style=\"\"><div class=\"tatsu-column-inner \" ><div class=\"tatsu-column-pad-wrap\"><div class=\"tatsu-column-pad\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-text-block-wrap tatsu-BJYvsEwh_  \"><div class=\"tatsu-text-inner tatsu-align-center  clearfix\" ><style>.tatsu-BJYvsEwh_.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;text-align: left;}<\/style>\n<p><em>Cedar<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a9&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedricbregnard.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CedricBregnard.ch<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-text-block-wrap tatsu-BJPcjVD2_  \"><div class=\"tatsu-text-inner tatsu-align-center  clearfix\" ><style>.tatsu-BJPcjVD2_.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;text-align: left;}.tatsu-BJPcjVD2_.tatsu-text-block-wrap{margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>What would our childhoods be like without it, sheltering our hide-and-seek games, offering its branches to our swings, or to our feet when we decided to climb, ever higher&nbsp;; without it populating the tales our parents told us in the evening before going to sleep&nbsp;? It adorns parks, botanical gardens, estate promenades and allotments. It&#8217;s so fast-growing, majestic, protective and major despite its eternal greenness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;A cedar that&#8217;s always green is a people that&#8217;s always young, despite a cruel past&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">claims the Lebanese flag, which has chosen the tree as its emblem. And the cedar&#8217;s past is just as eventful as that of the peoples of the Near East. He is already one of the protagonists in the myth of Osiris&#8217; death. When the evil Seth locks his brother in his sarcophagus, the royal remains float down the Nile, then upstream to Byblos. There, a bush surrounds and protects the coffin, and, mingling with the divine corpse, becomes an imposing cedar, the backbone of the God. Later, the sarcophagi of the pharaohs and wealthiest Egyptians would be carved from the essence, as a promise of eternal life. Pharaoh&#8217;s cedar later became <i>Solomon&#8217;s cedar<\/i>, a nickname coined by Chateaubriand in reference to the king who built Jerusalem&#8217;s first temple. Its construction took seven years, with Solomon sending some thirty thousand lumberjacks to cut hundreds of trees in the forests of Lebanon. Cedar&#8217;s reputation is such, its wood so noble, so unalterable, its fragrance so pleasant, that the essence almost dies.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><strong>For the first victim of deforestation is the cedar, despite threats from the Emperor Hadrian who, far more concerned about the environment than Bolsonaro, passed a law in 125 A.D. to put an end to abusive logging.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alas, even Hadrian can&#8217;t help it when the Church encourages people to live in houses with cedar beams, as rot-proof as souls must be against corruption. While cedars grace our parks, it would take centuries for forests to return to the way they were before ships, temples and houses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At the root of these trees familiar to our Western wanderings, the early 18th<span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\n  <sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\n<\/span> century. When explorers, botanists and the wealthy traveled to bring back the rarest seeds to compete in the gardens of other privileged people. Shoots of Cedar, from Lebanon but also from the Atlas, with its blue foliage, or from the Himalayas, rising higher than its cousins, were planted as early as 1720, reaching our 21<span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\n  <sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\n<\/span> century. And allow us to admire these great trees that shelter our confidences, our prayers, our kisses or our picnics. Because the tabular shapes that the crowns take on with age give cedars the air of a house with a leafy roof, under which to suspend time and rediscover the memory of our ancestors. The Celts, for example. When the forests were so dense that they blocked out the sky and the stars, the Celts observed the trees rather than the constellations.  <span class=\"s2\">Cedar represented longevity and revelation. It was the tree of knowledge and supreme justice, and those born under its sign were considered visionaries. You might come back from a stop at the foot of a cedar tree with clearer ideas, sharper intuitions, or at least your nostrils more awake to the delights of nature.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-divider-wrap  tatsu-B1F6qqWm5   \"  ><style>.tatsu-B1F6qqWm5 .tatsu-divider{height: 2px;width: 100%;background: rgba(230,255,0,1);}.tatsu-B1F6qqWm5.tatsu-divider-wrap{text-align: left;}<\/style><hr class=\"tatsu-divider\"\/><\/div><div  class=\"tatsu-module tatsu-inline-text clearfix tatsu-HkTBO4P3_   \" ><style>.tatsu-HkTBO4P3_ .tatsu-inline-text-inner{width: 100%;text-align: left;}@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {.tatsu-HkTBO4P3_ .tatsu-inline-text-inner{width: 100%;}}<\/style><div class=\"tatsu-inline-text-inner tatsu-align-center\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 11px;\">Each month, we present a new gasoline. Its legends, its properties, and the relationships it has maintained with civilizations through the ages. The fate of human beings has always been linked to the environment in which they were born, and which has enabled them to survive and prosper. <em>\u00c0 la racine<\/em> is a story to be read against a tree, and never forgotten. And since she tells her stories to children, and children love images, writer M\u00e9lanie Chappuis has enlisted the help of photographer Cedric Bregnard to illustrate her lines, a man who for many years has gazed in wonder at nature, its cycles and metamorphoses.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class = \"tatsu-column-bg-image-wrap\"><div class = \"tatsu-column-bg-image\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tatsu-overlay tatsu-column-overlay tatsu-animate-none\" ><\/div><\/div><style>.tatsu-row > .tatsu-SJI7dEv2d.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}.tatsu-SJI7dEv2d.tatsu-column > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-column-overlay{mix-blend-mode: normal;}.tatsu-SJI7dEv2d > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-top-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-SJI7dEv2d > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-bottom-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-SJI7dEv2d > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-left-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-SJI7dEv2d > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-right-divider{z-index: 9999;}@media only screen and (max-width:1377px) {.tatsu-row > .tatsu-SJI7dEv2d.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}}@media only screen and (min-width:768px) and (max-width: 1024px) {.tatsu-row > .tatsu-SJI7dEv2d.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}}@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {.tatsu-row > .tatsu-SJI7dEv2d.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tatsu-section-background-wrap\"><div class = \"tatsu-section-background\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tatsu-overlay tatsu-section-overlay\"><\/div><style>.tatsu-Hk-L7ONDnu .tatsu-section-pad{padding: 0px 0px 90px 0px;}.tatsu-Hk-L7ONDnu .tatsu-section-offset-wrap{transform: translateY(-0px);}.tatsu-Hk-L7ONDnu > .tatsu-bottom-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-Hk-L7ONDnu > .tatsu-top-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-Hk-L7ONDnu .tatsu-section-overlay{mix-blend-mode: normal;}<\/style><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would our childhoods be like without it, sheltering our games of hide-and-seek, offering its branches to our swings, or to our feet when we decided to climb higher and higher; without it populating the tales our parents told us in the evenings before bedtime? It adorns parks, botanical gardens, estate promenades and allotments. It&#8217;s so fast-growing, majestic, protective and major despite its eternal greenness.  <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/at-the-root\/the-cedar-of-supreme-justice-and-from-lebanon-the-himalayas-or-the-atlas-mountains\/\" class=\"exp-read-more exp-read-more-underlined\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-the-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13541,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525\/revisions\/13541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}