Help! I need an answer to a theological question, and I need it quick.
As I write this, the little terracotta goddess lies sleeping, wrapped in silk, on a shelf in the pantry.
But soon she'll be standing out in the corner of the garden, plunged to her thighs in the ground. Through the summer to come—night and day, rain and shine—she will watch over the growth of this year's tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, squash, beans, herbs, and greens.
So here's the question. Does the Garden Goddess go into the ground:
- when I till, or
- when I plant, and
- why?
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I am in favor of having her in place for the planting... although I can see the benefit of either. On a purely practical note, t
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Thanks, Anthony. It occurs to me to wonder to what degree the question that I've posed here is not so much a question of theology
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After you've turned over the dirt and before you start planting. Turning over the dirt is like putting fresh sheets on the bed.
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That I have lived to see the day, Jamie, when someone can use a word like agalma in a sentence without having to define it, I than
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Mr. Posch, Purely as a fellow Pagan offering my two cents, I would say that the best time to put the agalma in the ground would b