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Greece and Greece and
Olive TreeOlive Tree
Tradition-Health-Religion
Greece
A field with Olive Trees-A picture on the
walls of Minoan Palaces of Knossos
Collection of the olives using sticks and hands
The cultivation of Olive Tree in ancient times
Huge clay containers were used for the storage in appropriate places of
olive oil.
Whoever has wheat ,wine and olive oil in the jar
is rich and blessed by god
Legend from the island of Crete
Centrifugation: Spinning the paste round at high speed to separate oil
Competition between God Poseidon and Goddess
Athena. Panagia the Elaiovritissa
Greek athletes use olive oil on their skin.
Use of the instrument strigil for cleaning.
Soap made out of oil for cleaning.
Lamp for lightening.
Bless the ground that feeds olive tree
Bless the rain that comes from heaven and is watering the olive tree
Bless three times more the product of the olive tree, the olive oil,
because it is lightening in front of icons
and feeds poor people
free translation from a poem of Ioannis Polemis
Olive oil is used as a therapeutic agent in ancient years.
Good Samaritan (Jesus Christ) treats wounded person
(people).Luke, ι΄, 34
To the courteous and honorable
from God human being was given the
excellent food; bread, wine and olive
oil. Bread to support and strengthen
the heart, wine to delight the soul and
olive oil to please and cure the body
from the painful hardening.
Efsevios, On the inscriptions of psalms
……23, 1273,47-55
Olive oil is used in the sacrament of baptism. The new
baptised is released from the power of devil.
In 1830, Michaud in his visit of the island of Cyprus realizes that the crowns of people to be
married are made with branches of olives.
People of Cyprus are calling the Sunday before the Resurrection, the “Sunday of Olive Tree” because according to their custom they bring
branches of olive tree to be blessed.
“The collection of olives in the island of Mytilini” Theofilos, 1933
Olive Tree and Art
Olive Tree
…I am not a fair, sweet-smelling rose or citron-tree I blur the eyes of soul…
Kostis Palamas
Knossos, Crete
1600-1425 π.Χ.
“Your age, does not prevent you from
becoming richer and richer every year!”
Aristos Kampanis
Olive tree and labour
Jesus Christ before crucifixion prayed under the shadow of olive tree.
Agony in the garden El Greco
Olive tree loves the blue sky.
Olive tree filters the light and it is a shady tree.
Olive treesOlive trees G. Zoumpoulakis
The pigeon returns to Noah with a branch of olive tree and brings the message that the storm is ended.
The olive oil is the magic golden natural fruit which as the umbilical cord joins the tradition of the past of our existence, with the sacred
symbols of our civilisation. It feeds us and introduces us to its supreme, simple, pure and
dismantle taste.
Molecular Analysis Lab. Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
National Hellenic Research Foundation
Laboratory personel:Errika Zervou,
Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis (Narrator),Agni Kapou (Narrator),
Ioanna Kyrikou,Ioanna Ntaliani,
Eleni SiapiSupervisor: Dr. Thomas Mavromoustakos