"Dialogue between gardens: Hespérides
versus Eden"
To
speak about Gea I have used the metaphor of the garden since this one
represents to the nature but domesticated, the nature transcribed to
the human language.The
garden implies a reflection on the art, the beauty, the nature and
the language. " Both the landscape and the garden provide with
form to the nature in the process of being constructed as aesthetic
object, but this form that in case of the landscape is often symbolic
and, therefore, ideological, in case of the garden it is always
dialectical.” It is of this dialectical capacity wherefrom his
modern beauty is born. In
case of both gardens that they compose in a dialogue in this offer,
the Garden of Eden is a symbolic garden in which we find the tree of
the knowledge of the good and of the evil and the Garden of the
Hespérides is a literary, allegoric garden. Both gardens have
jointly the tree, it is a question of a tree with the gift to grant a
type to themof knowledge to whom it was eating it fruit. According
to the bible from the ingestion of it fruit Adam and Eve receive
knowledge of their nudity before the God's eyes, lose their
innocence,their state of divine grace and by it they are expelled
from the paradise. Though the christianity across the Bible always
has seen this as a historical truth, many experts in myths have
interpreted the myth of the tree as the access of the human being to
the conscience of himself from the use of the language, the tools and
the culture, drifting apart from a "primitive(original)"
condition(state) of animality, ideal, in the Garden of the Eden.
Curiously, the golden apples of the tree of the Garden of the
Hespérides give the immortality to the man. The apple trees were
planted of the branches by fruit that GEA had given to Era as gift of
her wedding with Zeus and to the Hespérides that were a few nymphs
one entrusted them the task of taking care of these fruits. The term
Hesperia was applied first to Italy and then to Hispania, always in
poetical language, but the garden of the Hespérides placed in a
place in the western ocean around Morocco, in the Atlas and, more
former, in a few islands in the atlantic ocean, the islands of
Fortunate (Canary Islands).
