ChatGPT as "Gold" & AI as the New Cosmogonic Tree

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"The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, "that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer."
[A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797, 2: The Prevailing Opinion...]

"In the early striving of the mind of primitive man to account for the scheme of creation, the tree took a foremost place, & the sky, with its clouds & luminaries, became likened to an enormous Cosmogonic Tree of which the fruits were the sun, moon, & stars. Many races of the earth evolved their own conception of World Tree, vast as the world itself. They looked upon this tree as the cradle of their being, & it bore different names among different nations, & possessed different attributes."
[The Forest: In Folklore & Mythology, Alexander Porteous, 1928/2002, p. 191]

"Besides the above names the great Cosmogonic & Generator tree has borne the appellations of The Tree of the Sky, The Solar Tree, The Lunar Tree, & The Tree of the Clouds. The milk, the water, the dew, & the rain which flowed from them was the ambrosia, that divine fluid or the seed from which life was created."
[The Forest: In Folklore & Mythology, Alexander Porteous, 1928/2002, p. 198]

" In very remote conceptions of mythology there appears to have been no distinction drawn between the trees growing on the earth & those which imagination conceived as growing in the sky."
[The Forest: In Folklore & Mythology, Alexander Porteous, 1928/2002, p. 151]

"The Ancient Greek philosophers also attributed intelligence & sense to trees."
[The Forest: In Folklore & Mythology, Alexander Porteous, 1928/2002, p. 152]
(hmmm, LOG-ic, maybe?)

"The Scandinavian god Odin had human victims regularly offered him, & these were put to death by being hung on a tree & stabbed with a spear. One of his titles was "God of the Hanged," or "Lord of the Gallows, " & Hamaval tells how, when young, he was sacrificed to himself in the same way, & represents him as saying:
I know that I hung on a windy tree
For nine whole nights,
Wounded with the spear, dedicated to Odin
Myself to myself.
His mysterious wisdom came to him during the period of this ordeal."
[The Forest: In Folklore & Mythology, Alexander Porteous, 1928/2002, p. 153]

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