Re: OFFTOPIC: gernikako arbola

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:26:38 +0300, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
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> On Sep 14, 2004, at 6:07 PM, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > En réponse à Chris Bates :
> >> I was just reading about this... I've never heard of any government
> >> apart from this one (the old Basque system) which actually held its
> >> meetings under a tree...
>
> > As the story goes, Saint Louis rendered justice under a tree :) .
>
> In the Tanakh (Jewish Bible), book of _Shofetim_ ("Judges"), the
> chieftain(ess?) Devora is described as judging the people underneath
> her very own personal tree.
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>   "the truth is he's a punk."
>       ~ law and order
>
Speaking of Significant meeting trees, the first mass said in the
Monterey area in 1602 by the Spanish was held under the spreading
branches of a Quercus agrifolia - Coast Live Oak. The tree doesn't
exist there any more, but there is a piece of its trunk preserved in
the Royal Presidio Chapel not too far from where the tree once stood
(it almost got washed out to sea never to be seen again... they found
its trunk floating in the bay once, and hauled it back to shore)

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