VICE TOMASOVIC

Knowledge about the plant origins of mankind has been present for a long time. Archaic people have inherited the truth about our origins from their ancient myths and legends. In such stories, our evolution is revealed in pictorial language, for example, depicting a child born from the bud of a large plant or seed. Some alchemical manuscripts mention the first real people, Adam and Eve, as the roots of the mandrake plant, which took shape in human form when they came out of the earth. Secret knowledge also teaches about homunculus small people that an alchemist can make in many ways, often by fertilizing a plant with his own seed or planting an egg filled with his own blood in the ground.

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All cultures have some version of the plant humanoid that most often brings the springtime. Throughout the history of Western art, we find this motif as a frequent architectural decoration of both sacral and profane objects through many variations. It is mostly depicted as a human face made of leaves, as a representation of a vegetative deity, which originated independently in different civilizations throughout history as a symbol of rebirth and cyclical circulation in nature.