The Moriche Palm (Mauritia flexuosa) is considered a deity by the Tamancas, a tribe of Oronoco Indians, and is held sacred by the aboriginal Mexicans.
The Moriche Palm (Mauritia flexuosa) is regarded as a sacred tree by the Mexican Indians.
To re-people the earth, the Deucalion and Pyrrha of the new world, instead of stones, threw over their shoulders the fruit of the Moriche Palm, and from its seeds sprang the whole human race.
The Moriche is regarded as a deity among the Tamancas, a tribe of Oronoco Indians.
It is entirely destitute of the corypha and moriche palm-trees.
The morichegrows best in moist places; and it may rather be said that the water attracts the tree.
Where tufts of the moriche palm were found growing in long ranges, the extremities of these green rows were suspended like the capes which were, for so long a time, the subject of my observations at Cumana.
The roof is thatched with the broad leaves of the moriche palm or preferably with those of the palma de cobija, also known as the palma de sombrero--hat palm.
Furthermore, he tells us that these huts are made of the moriche palm, which grows abundantly in these islands, and are covered with the leaves of it.
We had left the habitat of the coffee plant and the oak and were now in the territory of the cacao and the tolu tree, the vanilla vine and the moriche palm.
We had not proceeded far when we met a large herd of cattle in care of herdsmen quietly reposing beneath some umbrageousmoriche palm or singing some favorite Llanero song.
Here, as in the land of the Aruacs, the moriche palm is not only a thing of beauty, but, for the Indians, a source of comfort and joy.
So gigantic, indeed, are they that at a distance they are easily mistaken for a moriche palm.
The left, or northern bank of the Orinoco, which stretches along the delta towards the Boca de Mariusas and the Punta Baxa, is very low, and is distinguishable at a distance only by the clumps of moriche palm-trees which embellish the passage.
The use of this moriche wine however is not very common.
Certainly they are rare in Trinidad; where the only instances of social trees are the Moras (which I have never seen growing wild) and the Moriche palms.
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