{"id":14670,"date":"2021-05-14T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/non-classifiee\/his-excellency-the-oak\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:54:55","slug":"his-excellency-the-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lameche.net\/en\/at-the-root\/his-excellency-the-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"His Excellency the oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"tatsu-gqi0xuxytudgnk68 tatsu-section  tatsu-bg-overlay   tatsu-clearfix\" data-title=\"\"  data-headerscheme=\"background--dark\"><div class='tatsu-section-pad clearfix' data-padding='{\"d\": \"0px 0px 15px 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-gqi0xuxyvqbdixy7\" ><div  class=\"tatsu-row \" ><div  class=\"tatsu-column  tatsu-bg-overlay tatsu-one-col tatsu-column-image-none tatsu-column-effect-none  tatsu-gqi0xuxyxkbp5xpa\"  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-gqi0xuxyz56qohw6  \"><div class=\"tatsu-text-inner tatsu-align-center  clearfix\" ><style>.tatsu-gqi0xuxyz56qohw6.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;text-align: left;}<\/style>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" class=\"wp-image-1946\" src=\"https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-1024x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-1160x634.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-91x50.jpg 91w, https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-650x356.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-1000x547.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl-50x27.jpg 50w, https:\/\/lameche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Immortel_Chene_Photo_couleur_1300pxl.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><em>Immortal Oak, Brittany<\/em><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.CedricBregnard.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CedricBregnard.<\/a> ch &#8211; Participatory project: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinesduciel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racinesduciel<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<h3 class=\"p1 wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s the tree of fairy tales and fantasy novels, and the stuff of mythology,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">  <\/span>associated with the dryads of the Greeks, or with a door that closes one annual cycle and opens onto the next for the Hindus. It is also the temple of the Celts, around which the Druids gather and to which they all refer.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/h3><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At first, the oak fascinates our imagination, before we marvel at more scientific discoveries linked to its Latin name of Celtic origin, <i>quercus<\/i>, which means tree par excellence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As a child, we tell ourselves that we&#8217;ve entered one of its loopholes, that we&#8217;ve entered another world, that we&#8217;ve arrived elsewhere, where everything is different, and where we&#8217;ll be able to reinvent ourselves in the process.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">  <\/span>We have an intuition of the gateway it represented for ancient civilizations. When you discover as an adult that <i>oak<\/i> in English is called <i>Oak<\/i>, which derives from a Sanskrit word meaning door, you smile at this correspondence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Un peu plus tard, apr\u00e8s les premi\u00e8res blessures port\u00e9es par la vie, on pourra reprendre courage face \u00e0 un vieux ch\u00eane. Parce qu\u2019il ne pousse ni droit ni au garde-\u00e0-vous. Parce que ses branches sont irr\u00e9guli\u00e8res, tordues, tourment\u00e9es, et qu\u2019il s\u2019en d\u00e9gage pourtant une impression de sagesse et de puissance. Le ch\u00eane traverse les \u00e9preuves du temps sans plier, il reste solidement enracin\u00e9, rendu plus fort par ce qui ne l\u2019a pas tu\u00e9.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He&#8217;s a king who plans his breaks. It equips branches that could be lost in stormy winds or heavy snow with a bulge, a kind of cushion that will help healing should they fall.<\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We take our cue from him. We imagine ourselves as warriors returning from the battlefield, amputees but alive, ready to fight again, or broken-hearted, soul-scratched, but ready to love again, to give our trust, in an enthusiastic but devoid of candor. Starting again, persevering, means taking risks, going ahead anyway, preparing for it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Dans l\u2019astrologie celtique, car les Celtes regardaient les for\u00eats plut\u00f4t que les \u00e9toiles, le ch\u00eane est l\u2019arbre du 21 mars. Premier jour de printemps. On recommence un cycle. On ouvre <i>la porte<\/i> sur la vie qui reprend. Mars, c\u2019est aussi le dieu de la guerre, celui de notre guerrier \u00e0 feuilles lob\u00e9es, et d\u2019une plan\u00e8te qui porte son nom.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\">New concordance. Correlations between intuition and deduction, superstition and proven fact, abound when it comes to oak trees. Are today&#8217;s scientists simply proving what the ancients knew otherwise?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"p1\">Twenty years ago, Swiss forestry engineer Ernst Z\u00fcrcher succeeded in demonstrating that trees pulsate, and that the internal movements of sap are linked to the cosmos. Like water, they react to lunar tides. Taking their research a step further, the scientists discovered that trees react not only to the moon, but also to the planet traditionally assigned to them. Oak buds pulse according to whether the moon is aligned with or in opposition to Mars.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Rien de plus fascinant que les hasards qui n\u2019en sont pas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Just one more. Brittany is home to a famous hundred-year-old oak, the Hulo rag tree. Even today, according to a practice that dates back to pagan cults, people still attach pieces of clothing to it, in the hope of obtaining a cure for a skin disease. In this way, the disease can leave the patient&#8217;s body and be transferred to the tree. Superstition has its own explanation, but we don&#8217;t know whether it precedes or follows superstition.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">  <\/span>Due to its high tannin content, oak bark is astringent, making it an excellent remedy for eczema and other skin diseases.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Finally, the oak traditionally used to clarify a house wine is still used today in barrels to house and age certain vintages, imparting its woody aromas to the grapes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The perfect way to continue dreaming of this essence while enjoying a grand cru.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/><p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 11px;\">Chaque mois, nous vous pr\u00e9sentons une essence. Ses l\u00e9gendes, ses propri\u00e9t\u00e9s, et les rapports qu\u2019elle a entretenus avec les civilisations au fil du temps. Le destin des humains est li\u00e9 depuis toujours \u00e0 l\u2019environnement qui les a vu na\u00eetre, qui leur a permis de survivre et de prosp\u00e9rer. <em>\u00c0 la racine<\/em> est une histoire \u00e0 lire contre un arbre, et \u00e0 ne plus oublier. Et comme elle se raconte aux enfants et que les enfants aiment les images, l\u2019\u00e9crivaine M\u00e9lanie Chappuis s\u2019entoure du photographe Cedric Bregnard pour illustrer ses lignes, lui qui pose depuis de nombreuses ann\u00e9es son regard \u00e9merveill\u00e9 sur la nature, ses cycles et ses m\u00e9tamorphoses.<\/h3><p><\/p><\/p>\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-gqi0xuxyxkbp5xpa.tatsu-column{width: 100%;}.tatsu-gqi0xuxyxkbp5xpa.tatsu-column > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-column-overlay{mix-blend-mode: normal;}.tatsu-gqi0xuxyxkbp5xpa > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-top-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-gqi0xuxyxkbp5xpa > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-bottom-divider{z-index: 9999;}.tatsu-gqi0xuxyxkbp5xpa > .tatsu-column-inner > .tatsu-left-divider{z-index: 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