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09-14-2010, 05:53 AM
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Well, I finally got to this thread later than I promised. Sorry. :embarresed:
Pretty much everything that I was going to bring up has been brought up, except for one. Remember how a few months ago the Christian Church got up in a tizzy about how Avatar was some form of Paganistic propoganda? IIRC there were even a few threads here about it, "A common ministers reaction to Avatar" comes to mind. Though, the thing that I find ironic is just how paganistic Christianity's creation story, and the Garden of Eden, are. Humans were close to nature (like the Na'vi), humans were close to God (like the Na'vi), and humans even contacted God through a tree (eating the fruit of the Tree of Life) like the Na'vi. Just like humans in the Garden of Eden did not worship the Tree of Life, per se, rather worshiping God through the tree, the Na'vi don't worship the Tree of Souls, rather worshiping Eywa through the tree. Eating the fruit of the Tree of Life was our form of tsaheylu. Also, continuing with the idea of consumption being a form of tsaheylu on Earth, people today use Ayahuasca (the Vine of Souls) tea to induce religious experiences, similar to the way eating from the Tree of Life would probably be like (though probably less messy, as people who have studied ayahuasca probably know  ). Indeed, it seems like plants do speak on Earth too, we just listen a different way.
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