Re: HIST: Irises and grave sites

Rosalie and Neil  --  This is a very interesting subject.  I'm sure you have
heard the legend that Albicans was spread into Europe by Turkish soldiers
who carried rhizomes with them to plant on the graves of their comrades.  I
was reminded of that story some 25 years ago when, on a tour of the southern
flank of NATO, we were heading up the Ceyhan valley east of Adana, in
southern Turkey.  It was April.  We flashed past a graveyard, and saw iris
blooming profusely atop each mound!

Archaeology is often a great confirmer of oral tradition, such as the claim
of the Mongols, as long ago as the time of Genghis Khan, that the ancestors
of some of them were red-haired, blue-eyed people.  Only within about the
last quarter century, have the graves and their frozen and mummified
occupants turned up to lend credence (at least by modern Westerners) to
these "myths".    --  Griff

zone 7 in Virginia


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To: <iris@hort.net>; <neilm@charter.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] HIST: Irises and grave sites


> Cemeteries have been places for irises, I know.  My  maternal
grandparents'
> family plantation had their own cemetery secluded in a part of the
plantation
> -- I found the Blackberry Lily growing there among the graves - and that
is an
> interesting form of iris, .  Also, when I was in India, I kept looking for
> muslim graveyards and took a picture (the slide was not very good and is
> somewhere in my collection) of white irises growing in one.  I understand
that they
> feel  the iris, as a rainbow,  helps the soul on its way to heaven.  Who
knows
> !  Rosalie nr Baltimore,MD   zone 7  ryfigge@aol.com
>
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