The forbidden fruit of Cassiopeia ?

[Kisito]

The forbidden fruit of Cassiopeia ?
Hello, I would like to share my thoughts about coffee.
I hope this story will not parraitre you too ridiculous.
There will be two conductive lines, history and civilization.
part I
The origin of coffee is Ethiopia is the oldest beverage created by man, and the most consumed after water.
- In ancient history, mythology seems to tell us that the oldest queen of Ethiopia, is Cassiopeia.
- The species of the most famous coffee and most popular of coffee lovers is "Arabica".
The reasons are that Yemen is the first country of import and coffee farmer. Its seaports have a long history of trade. Its location is strategic. Especially considering that Yemen is associated Royaum of Sheba, and he was once called "Arabia happy" .
- We also know that the Bible tells us that the Queen of Sheba was the wife of Solomon, king of Israel. Also, it is not difficult to imagine a kingdom between Palestine and Ethiopia could exist once.
- The mythology says that Cassiopeia was the queen of Ethiopia, but also of Palestine. Again, we can consider that a kingdom was established between Ethiopia, Yemen, Saudi western and Palestine.
- If Yemen (Arabia happy) was the largest importer and coffee farmer, the first country to roast coffee was the Arabic.
- We see three countries linked to the history of coffee, Ethiopia, Yemen and Arabia.
-In mythology Cassiopeia, we see the fruit of her womb (coffee) had to be sacrificed because Cassiopeia believed that her daughter could subtituer the Nereids. But Perseus comes to save.
- The origin of the Nereids is difficult to know, but the Greek or Latin, we seem to return to swimming or water.
- As for the name Andromeda, its sound french, makes me think "cure" (drug elixir). On google, the etymology of Andromeda, shows this: [...] term derived from Greek words meaning man, and who care; (NARD .... voy.) the latter term has the same root as the Latin mederi, heal (voy. Doctor).
- So it makes sense, that the Queen of Ethiopia (Cassiopeia) had a cure (Café / Andromeda) higher than the Nereids (water), but a powerful entity of the Sea (Ceto, father of the Gorgons / King of Yemen) wanted to steal this remedy (Andromeda / Café), but the ally of Ethiopia and its neighbor (Arabic / Persian / Perseus), would have helped to keep a remedy (coffee).
- Is this related to the same story of Perseus killing a Gorgon (Medusa), and his father Ceto?
part II
Also, as I try to show, Andromeda would perhaps not the daughter of Cassiopeia, but the fruit of her womb (the fruit of the land, coffee. Chromosomes arabica coffee 44 and the man's 46 seem close). And maybe the great kingdom of Saba, Palestine and Ethiopia this comes a fierce battle between the three regions (Ethiopia / Cassiopeia, Yemen / Cetos, Saudi / Perseus) for the control or knowledge of the coffee .
And if the coffee was a cure? That's what I started to think.
Because when we look at the trade flow of coffee, it is closely linked with the cultural evolution of a people and a civilization.
- When the coffee was consumed in Ethiopia, we can consider according to the stories that Ethiopia was an advanced civilization. When Yemen and Saudi (Persia) seized the cafe, to drink as a drink, thanks to roasting, we witness the great civilizations, Persian, Assyrian and Babylonian.
- Then the coffee is sold in Turkey, and we are seeing the emmergence the Ottoman kingdom (Turkish and Mongolian). The coffee was the drink of the Sufis.
- The Ottoman empire conflicts with the countries of Eastern Europe, and seized half of Europe. France, Holland are the first European countries that will consume and market coffee. Can we think that coffee is the cause of the age of Enlightenment in Europe? The first coffee shops in Holland appear at the time of the great Dutch painters and their great army. Coffee was long considered as a drug (the forbidden fruit). It is not surprising that we find the notion of drugs in Dutch coffee shops.
- Louis XIV would have received the envoy Ottaman empire, Suleiman Aga order to know the virtues of coffee. Besides, the first place where one can enjoy coffee in France, is the famous cafe, "Le Procope". The cafe attracts authors like Voltaire or Rousseau, who have their habitudes. The "legend" Coffee said that there Diderot wrote articles for the Encyclopedia, that Benjamin Franklin is prepared "Louis XVI alliance project with the New Republic," according to a commémorative plate, and there would be developed elements of the future Constitution of US.
- Louis XIV also asked the botanists, famous brothers Jussieu, to plant coffee in the "Jardin des Plantes" in Paris. The first coffee plants were imported in the French colony of Martinique (near Venezuala). History says that it is from these coffee plants, France has flooded the entire American market.
Also, we know that the US citizens were and are big coffee drinkers. We can ask whether the emergence of the North American civilization, would not be linked to consomation coffee.
'I am aware of this very fragile hypothesis, and that all great civilizations seem to have no link with the coffee (Egypt, Greece, India, China and the Amerindian civilizations). But are we sure that these civilizations had no links with the coffee? If other great civilizations had no link with the coffee, it does not necessarily remove the probable virtues of coffee and its role in émmergence certain civilization.
-Is It possible that the first forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden, was the coffee?
Cetos (the monster) he had ordered Cassiopeia (Eve) and her husband Cepheus (Adam) not to touch the coffee (fruit), as this would give them the civilization (knowledge)?

 

[Buddy]

Not sure what Cassiopaea (marriage of science and mysticism) has to do with Cassiopeia (a constellation in the northern sky, named after the vain queen Cassiopeia in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivalled beauty), but maybe you're not making a connection there, I can't tell.

Other than that, it appears that people simply like coffee and always have.

-Is It possible that the first forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden, was the coffee?

Coffee as a symbol of doing something you know not to do but you do it anyway?

Cetos (the monster) he had ordered Cassiopeia (Eve) and her husband Cepheus (Adam) not to touch the coffee (fruit), as this would give them the civilization (knowledge)?

The psychologists tell us that we learn how to tell our first lie between the ages of 2 to 5. Of course, the first lies are always so ridiculous that our parents fall out laughing. But then we learn to lie based on what we think the other person needs to hear in order for the lie to be accepted into their world view so that we don't get seen as a "bad person" or even get punished. Maybe that should be considered as well. Perhaps our own lives from birth to death are a microcosm of the entire history of civilization if you know how to read it. Or maybe not. Interesting thoughts, though.

 

[Kisito]

Buddy thank you for your reply. Cassiopeia does not say "really" it is the most beautiful, but her daughter (Andromeda) is the most beautiful. I guess it depends on interpretation, as does whether Palestinian or Ethiopian (of the mediterranean to the Red Sea). That's why I assumed that it must be part of the same kingdom. As for the link with the constellation, it should ask the Cassiopaeans themselves I think. It would be interesting one day to psychoanalysis, particularly between the myth of Cassiopeia with the link of the Gorgon Medusa, which Athena had asked the head of Medusa Perseus and parrallel to the "Discord / Eris" throwing another sacred fruit ( apple "gold") to the three most beautiful goddess, Hera, Aphrodite and Athena, which will trigger the greatest war of antiquity (Troy). As the stories with Jesus, I think as you say, there are probably many volunteers lies and historical confusion. But I think everything comes from truth. Maybe one day Laura will do the job (she always :)).
But it is true that I have a fascination about coffee and its origin. It is frequently mentioned as the wine drink Gods (Dionysus, Bacchus) or the general Epicurean school of thought. Wine is known for its oenology with its 400 flavors, while coffee contains more than 800 flavors (the Caféologie develops). Coffee is my much more subtle sense, and could be the original fruit, knowing that its origin is in Ethiopia, countries of Queen Cassiopeia, and perhaps of humanity ... Here Harvard study:http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/how-coffee-loves-us-back/
Coffee, said the Napoleon-era French diplomat Talleyrand, should be hot as hell, black as the devil, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Bach wrote a cantata in its honor, writers rely on it, and, according to legend, a pope blessed it. Lady Astor once reportedly remarked that if she were Winston Churchill’s wife, she’d poison his coffee, to which Churchill acerbically replied: “If I were married to you, I’d drink it.”

Coffee is everywhere, through history and across the world. And increasingly, science is demonstrating that its popularity is a good thing.

Harvard scientists have for years put coffee under the microscope. Last year, researchers announced they had discovered six new human genes related to coffee and reconfirmed the existence of two others. The long-running Nurses’ Health Study has found that coffee protects against type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Researchers are continuing to follow up on 2001 findings that it protects against Parkinson’s disease.

The work at Harvard is just part of an emerging picture of coffee as a potentially powerful elixir against a range of ailments, from cancer to cavities.

Sanjiv Chopra, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has been so impressed he’s become something of a coffee evangelist. The author of several books, Chopra included a chapter on coffee in his 2010 book, “Live Better, Live Longer.”

Chopra first became aware of the potentially powerful protective effects of coffee when a study revealed that consumption lowers levels of liver enzymes and protects the liver against cancer and cirrhosis. He began asking students, residents, and fellows on the liver unit to quiz patients about their coffee habits, finding repeatedly that none of the patients with liver ailments drank coffee.

Chopra himself makes sure to have several cups a day, and encourages others to do the same. Though other researchers are less bold in their dietary recommendations, they’re convinced enough to continue investigations into the benefits.

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Alberto Ascherio, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a professor of medicine at HMS, has been studying the potential anti-Parkinson’s effects first suggested in the 2001 findings. That study showed that four or five cups of coffee daily cut disease risk nearly in half compared with little or no caffeine.

Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and Professor of Medicine Frank Hu, who leads the diabetes section of the long-running Nurses’ Health Study, has become interested in whether coffee drinking affects total mortality.

“I’m not a huge coffee drinker, two to three cups a day,” Hu said. “[But] I like it and, thinking about the extra benefits, that’s comforting.”

Last year, a Harvard team led by then-research associate Marilyn Cornelis — today an assistant professor at Northwestern University — traced coffee’s fingerprints to the human genome, discovering six new genes related to coffee consumption and reconfirming two others found earlier. The six genes included two related to metabolism, two related to coffee’s psychoactive effects, and two whose exact purpose in coffee consumption is unclear, but which are related to lipid and glucose metabolism.

Daniel Chasman, an associate professor of medicine at HMS and associate geneticist at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who worked with Cornelis on the study, said caffeine consumption habits are highly heritable and that the genes they found appear to explain about 7 percent of the heritability. That’s a significant amount, he said, considering how strong an influence culture also plays on coffee consumption.

Though the links between coffee and better health have become considerably clearer, what exactly confers the benefit remains murky. Caffeine alone does not explain the effects. For starters, some of the benefits are seen even with decaf, which has prompted researchers to turn their attention to the many other active compounds — including antioxidants such as chlorogenic acid — in your morning cup.

“Coffee is a complex beverage. It’s very difficult to pinpoint which component of coffee is responsible for the benefit,” Hu said. “There are numerous bioactive compounds.”

Other highlights from Harvard research include:

A 2005 study exploring concerns that too much coffee was bad for blood pressure found no link between higher blood pressure and coffee and found some suggestion that it improved blood pressure.
Regular coffee drinking was linked in a 2011 Harvard study to lower risk of a deadly form of prostate cancer.
Also in 2011, a study showed that drinking four or more cups a day lowered the rate of depression among women.
A 2012 study tied three cups a day to a 20 percent lower risk of basal cell carcinoma.
A 2013 Harvard study linked coffee consumption to a reduced risk of suicide.
Also in 2013, a Harvard analysis of 36 studies covering more than a million people found that even heavy coffee consumption did not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and that three to five cups of coffee daily provided the most protection against cardiovascular disease.
Also in 2014, Harvard Chan School researchers found that increasing coffee consumption by more than a cup a day over a four-year period reduced type 2 diabetes risk by 11 percent.
The same study showed that those who decreased their coffee consumption by more than a cup a day increased their type 2 diabetes risk by 17 percent.
“That first cup of coffee in the morning is happiness.” Chopra said. “It’s a real joy.”
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/how-coffee-loves-us-back/