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Cypress Knees & Snail Tales

One only has to look at Cypress Knees to realize the Wood Spirits themselves live.

Cypress knees amidst Florida's Everglades are more than just natural oddities. Revealing stories of resilience, adaptation, and the unique ecosystem in which they thrive. A peek into these hidden gems offers a deep connection to nature and a chance to glimpse something truly special among the wonders of the natural world.

The folklore and myths of Louisiana can open a window into the soul of Cajun culture, revealing a world where the line between the natural and the supernatural blurs. Stories, whether whispered around a campfire or shared at a family gathering, enchant and educate, reminding us of the continuing power of tradition and the endurance of the human spirit.

Trees also function as antennas and are a source of electrical voltage. Thus, it is not a joke nor a simple scientific curiosity, that Gen. George O. Squire, Chief Signal Officer for the Army discovered in the early 1900s, recognized that trees — all trees, of all kinds and all heights, growing anywhere — are nature’s own wireless towers and antenna combined. The matter first came to his attention in 1904, through the use of trees as grounds for Army buzzer and telegraph and telephone sets, which, in perfectly dry ground and in a dry season, functioned poorly or not at all with ordinary grounds.

George O. Squier ~ Trees as Antennas (Scientific American, June 14, 1919 & British Patent Specification # 149,917)

This should come as no big surprise as trees are natural lightning rods, and the root tissue possesses a high degree of electro-magnetic conductivity in the apical meristem (meristematic tissue found at the tip) that is protected by a root cap. The root cap continually reverses polarity as it sloughs off its oldest tissues to provide lubrication as the root is pushed through the soil. As the apical meristem grows, it cuts off new cells through cell division, and a rapid zone of elongation is formed directly behind it. In this area, the new cells are electrically charged and enlarging and differentiating into specialized root tissue.

wrt: "this behavior is likened to the waxing and waning of the moon (revealing, and concealing). Also, that snails represent awareness, and an ability to effectively interpret dreams and unorthodox realities. This is because of the snail's antennae which are hugely exploratory. Further, the entire body of the snail is a sensory tool."

In a related understanding, that also speaks to interlacing your snail entry with tree ecology: I live amongst Bald Cypress and it’s said, “the Bald Cypress likes to keep its feet wet” in reference to the fact they grow along waterways, river and lake banks. They are large trees that lose their leaves in the wintertime (hence “bald”), which suggests some of the energy exchange occurring between entities in transitional environments. The energy of Cypress is protective and cleansing and frequently draws in Nassarius (Nassa mud snails). These snails according to research elaborated on at the Max Planck Institute possess two directional antennas for detecting the magnetic field direction, and these are “tuned” — one with a solar day rhythm and the other with a lunar day one.

This now relates to re-discovery of lunar fertility practices in Archeoastronomy that have been featured in a story called:

Silver Tears of the Moon Goddess

Unexpected Discovery: An Uncharted Anthropomorphic Artifact @ Pena de Juaica (one of the central most sacred mountains in the indigenous religion of the Muisca people) - GeoTalks 2020

In Colombia (in the sacred Juice Valley in Cundinamarca region) the Pena de Juaica, is a mountain topping out @3,209m located in the township of Tabio.

A six-member, multi-disciplinary team examined a Muisca hill range to unearth a priceless ancient artifact. On this remote Colombian hillside, a drone survey revealed an "outlier platform" used by the Muisca for lunar astronomy.