You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

Well, welcome to the ancient tradition podcast. It's great to have you listening along today. I don't know

what you're doing. Maybe you're out tinkering in the yard or doing some laundry or taking a ride.

Whatever you're doing, we're glad that you're listening in. Hopefully you can learn a couple of new

things that can benefit your understanding and your life. Today's episode is titled, The Pichote Tree of the Dynasty.

I've got a lot that I want to cover today, so I'm going to just jump right in.

In our last episode, we started looking at the sixth category of human origin accounts,

which attest that the first human beings emerged, grew out of, descended from, or were born from a sacred tree.

So if you are new to the program, this is the first time you're listening in, yes, the ancients,

many of them argued that we were born from a sacred tree. Now that probably sounds a little bit crazy,

or maybe even just a little bit

ignorant. And we might be inclined to think that the ancients clearly didn't know what they

were talking about because everybody knows that human beings weren't born from a tree.

Now, the problem with that interpretation is that it's a modern one. We in the modern day tend to think

that the ancients were speaking literally, that the ancients believed that we human beings were

born from a literal tree, but they weren't. And the more you listen to this program, the more

you're going to come to recognize that the ancients knew exactly what they were talking't. And the more you listen to this program, the more you're going to come to recognize

that the ancients knew exactly what they were talking about. And that they conveyed and concealed

great cosmological and theological truths in symbolic language, which is exactly what they're

doing here when they attest that the first human beings were born from a tree.

Now, the tree of which they're speaking is symbolic,

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