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Subject: [OM] Re: IMG: Nathan's P AD 21: señoritas i n act ion
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 01:49:32 -0700
Jez Cunningham wrote:
> In England we call them 'Passion Flower'
>   
As with so many other older European names, it's Christian thing.

""Passion" does not refer to love, but to the Passion of Christ on the 
cross. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries 
discovered this flower and adopted its unique physical structures as 
symbols of Crucifixion. For example: the radial filaments which can 
number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower represent the 
Crown of Thorns. The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful 
apostles. The top 3 stigmata represent the 3 nails and the lower 5 
anthers represent the 5 wounds. The flower has been given names related 
to this symbolism throughout Europe since that time. In Spain, it is 
known as /Espina de Cristo/ (Christ's Thorn). In Germany it was once 
known as /Muttergottes-Schuzchen/ (Mother-of-God's Star)."
   - Wikipedia

Moose

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