Planetary Garden

Autor:: Gilles Clement

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He was inviting us to follow him into the universe of man and his beliefs, leaving behind the dragon tree and the Anona (a genus of dicotyledons, including the custard- apple and other edible fruits), which we would have liked to know more about. We shall come back to learn more.

Among the creatures isolated by oceans, mountains, and thick forests, we have to include the gods. The gods don't meet except to make war. In front of you are six little pantheons, six faiths, six different reasons for ruling over the world and forcing those who think differently to pay for it. In the middle, a palaver tree, reputed to be the gathering place of ideas and melodies common to these cosmog onies. Idealistic, improbable: a species to be identified. After biological endemism-the diversity of species, the carousel of the continents-here we have ideological endemism, the diversity of ideas, the carousel of myths.