“ʻO nā Gates o ka lani” - kahi ʻoka ikaika

Kekahi lāʻau hoʻomohala ʻo Dmitry Kaygorodov i kākau ai a hiki i ka kenekulia 19: "E like me ka ʻaeto ma waena o nā manu, e like me ka liona ma waena o nā holoholona, ​​no laila ka lāʻau ma waena o nā lāʻau, ʻaʻole wale Rusia a i ʻole maʻEulopa, i manaʻo ʻia ka" aliʻi. "

Ua kākau ʻo Pliny the Elder i nā ʻoki, ʻaʻole i hoʻopaʻa ʻia no nā kenekulia, o ka mau makahiki hoʻokahi o ko ke ao nei, pīhoihoi lākou i ko lākou hopena make ʻole, e like me kahi hana mana nui. Ua mālama ʻia nā moʻolelo e pili ana i nā kumulāʻau ikaika i mua o ke ao ʻana i waena o nā lāhui ʻē aʻe o ʻEulopa. Ma lalo o nā lei aliʻi o nā ʻoka kahiko ua kūkulu ʻia nā wahi no ka ʻoihana kahuna - nā kāhuna mua o ko nā ʻāina ʻē, kahi a lākou i hoʻohiki ai, nā mōhai, nā luna kānāwai, a me nā alakaʻi.

Ua hoʻolaʻa ʻia nā Slavs i ka lāʻau lāʻau ma Perun, ke akua nui, ka haku o ke hekili a me ka uila. Ma lalo o ka lāʻau kahiko a me nā mea nani loa, ua kau ʻia ke kiʻi o Perun, kahi ahi kīʻaha o nā ʻoka lāʻau ʻoka e kokoke kokoke ana.

Ua hoʻolaʻa ka Roma kahiko i ka lāʻau lāʻau i ka Jupiter ikaika. A i loko o Helene kahiko, ʻo ka lāʻau kahiko ka mea kumu o ka keʻena kapu o Zeus. Ua kahe wai mai lalo ona, a ʻōlelo ka ʻōlelo ma ʻaneʻi o ka ʻūlū o nā lau, me ka hoʻāʻo e lohe i nā wānana a ke Akua ponoʻī. Ua ʻōlelo pinepine ʻia nā moʻolelo kūlohelohe e noho ana nā aliʻi a ʻae aku i nā aupuni ma lalo o kahi ʻoka. Ua kanu ʻia nā aliʻi ma lalo o nā aʻa o ke ʻoka. ʻO ka ʻaka, ka manaʻo o ka poʻe kahiko, ʻo ia ka puka o ka lani e hiki ai i kahi akua ke kū i mua o nā kānaka. He hōʻailona o ka hōʻino ʻole o ka mana tsarist he hui ʻoak, he hōʻailona o ka haʻaheo, ka hanohano, ka ikaika - kahi ʻāpana o nā lau oak.

Ma waho o nā lālā laʻa ʻole, ʻaʻohe mea hoʻāno e hiki i waena o nā Druids, a ma waena o nā Celts ma lalo o ka lāʻau, ua hana a ka ʻikepili ʻo Merlin i kāna mea kilokilo. I ka wā e hiki mai ai ka manawa bapetizo, ua ʻae ka poʻe e luku i nā kiʻi ma mua o ka luku ʻana i nā lāʻau paia. Ua loaʻa nā Oaks me nā kuahu ma Kiev, Vilna a me nā wahi ʻē aʻe, ua kipa ʻia kekahi o lākou i ke kikowaena o ke kenekulia ma mua o ka hala.

I ke ana o St. Cornelius ma ka moku o Moscow, kokoke i ka hale kākala ʻo Paleostrovsky, aia he ʻā o ke oak, ua ulu i loko o kahi puʻu a i luku ʻia e nā niho o ka poʻe pōroli, a hāneʻe pū lākou iā ia i ka makahiki 1860. Hāʻawi i ka lāʻau lapaʻau kuʻuna e kāʻili i ka lāʻau oki a me ka lāʻau me ka niho maʻi.

Ua ʻōlelo ʻia kēia lāʻau ma nā ʻōwili o nā kānaka: inā hāʻawi ka lāʻau i ka nui o ka acorns, a laila lōʻihi ka hoʻoilo a paʻa ʻole ke kauwela. Loaʻa nā mea āpau i kahi oak no ka pono o ke kanaka. Kūkā ʻia ka ʻili a ua hoʻohana ʻia me ka ʻili i nā hiʻona; hoʻomaʻemaʻe ʻia kāna infusion i nā hanana kūlohelohe i ka ʻōpū o ka waha a ʻāʻī ʻia. Hele nā ​​ʻiʻo i ka hānai puaʻa a me nā puaʻa hihiu, a i ka wā wīwī - e hana i kahi kīʻī ʻofe. Akā ʻo ka waiwai nui o ka oak, ʻoiaʻiʻo, he ikaika a lāʻau ka lāʻau.