{"id":109468,"date":"2022-08-09T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=109468"},"modified":"2024-03-06T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:57:59","slug":"pine-was-sacred-tree","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/pine-was-sacred-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine was sacred tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pine (<em>Pinus pinea<\/em>) has been a sacred tree in the Apennine Peninsula since the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wojny\/wojny-punickie\/\">Punic Wars<\/a> (well before the advent of our era). A frequent element of the landscape, it was a symbol of eternity. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It symbolized immortality, and its beautiful twigs were most often used in December, during subsequent holidays, called <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/swieta-rzymskie\/saturnalia\/\">Saturnalia<\/a>, when houses were decorated with them. Moreover, the pines were decorated with special <em>oscilla<\/em> and <em>sigillaria<\/em> decorations &#8211; small clay dolls.<\/p>\n<p>From the third century BCE, on March 22, the followers of the goddess <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/bogowie-starozytnego-rzymu\/spis-bogow-rzymskich\/kybele\/\">Cybele<\/a> cut down the pine and carried it to the temple of Attis, which when he died was to be turned into a pine (thanks to Zeus\/Jupiter). Pine was also a sacred\/eternal tree in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/bogowie-starozytnego-rzymu\/spis-bogow-rzymskich\/mitra\/\">Mithras<\/a> and other religions and countries. Cones, which were a symbol of fertility, eternity and kindness, were surrounded by a special symbolism. This symbol was often used as a way to approach the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/\">gods<\/a> and ask for their goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40222,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-109468","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/109468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/109468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=109468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}