tamanaquas

Updated: July 31, 2026

The Tamanaquas of South America have a tradition that the human race sprang from the fruits of the date palm after the Mexican age of water. Again, our English nursery fable of the parsley-bed, in which little strangers are discovered, is perhaps, "A remnant of a fuller tradition, like that of the woodpecker among the Romans, and that of the stork among our Continental kinsmen."

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants