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Trees

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Celtic Beliefs

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The Celtics believed in a Tree of Life, that represents the balance and harmony of the worlds and that this tree of life would connect all three realms of human life, heaven, earth, and the underworld. Trees are typical representations of portals throughout many religions but more heavily in Celtic beliefs.

Druids in Celtic Culture

slwindro — 2024-08-05 19:54:31 UTC

Druids were religious leaders in Celtic history as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals, and political advisors. They never left written accounts and while many stories paint them as literate most believe they were prevented by doctrine from writing physical records of their knowledge. Druids are an educated class of the Celtic people as they appeared all across Celtic nations and spread through European locales.

Druids

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Spiritual Truth, Interconnection, Ancestral Honoring, Godbeing Honoring, Reincarnation of Soul, Underworld and Heaven

Trees and Druids

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Trees, as portals to the spirit world, had their remains used as wands and staffs that druids would use and their ceremonies were performed with different parts of an ash tree. Their fruit was used by druids as medicine and were believed to harbor healing powers that the druids knew how to harness.

Native American Belief

slwindro — 2024-08-05 20:03:30 UTC

Native Americans believed that in the heart of their tradition trees were sacred embodiments of the Earths wisdom and tranquility, therefore they used its parts in everyday practice.

Everyday Use of Trees

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Native Americans used the hard bark of trees to create homes, soft paperbark was used to wrap babies, fivers were made into fishing lines and cords, water carriers were made from knots of trees, leaves and fruits were used as food and medicines, and roots and branches become tools. Their whole society was built around trees they considered sacred and to be a representative of wisdom.

Christianity and Trees

slwindro — 2024-08-05 20:13:35 UTC

Trees are commonly mentioned within the Bible with good and bad connotations. The Bible refers to wisdom as a tree and as a symbol of forgiveness as Christ died on a tree. The four most important trees are the Tree of Life in Genesis, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the Tree of Life as mentioned in Revelations, and the Tree that made the cross where Jesus was crucified.

Jesus WAS a Carpenter

slwindro — 2024-08-06 06:47:39 UTC

When Jesus was alive he had aura. He was depicted as a carpenter in history for two reasons. One, is to represent the connection between him, the Earth, and God via the repurposing of trees and giving back to the community. The other is to represent how he died to forgive all peoples sins on a cross, a wooden cross that, while debated who made the cross, resembles the work of a carpenter which may have been a reference to how he died for the Earth and the people he believed in and provided for for many years.

Mountains

slwindro — 2024-08-06 06:51:05 UTC

Physical Symbolism

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Mountains are symbolic from the tip to the base. The tip of a mountain is to symbolize a peak, the absolute consciousness. The base of a mountain symbolizes permanence and constancy. Dreaming of a mountain can signify danger but on the other hand, climbing a mountain can show inner elevation.

The Inca

slwindro — 2024-08-06 17:13:35 UTC

The Inca were a group of Native Americans who had a history of sacrificing humans in colder places, typically atop a mountain as it was cold nearly year round. Those sacrificed were typically young women and children as they were seen as pure and innocent. Sacrifices were not normally just hypothermia, most would use strangulations, a blow to the head, suffocation, or being buried alive to sacrifice those deemed pure. However, they used mountains as they were seen as living entities that witnessed the arrival and departure of people. They were also seen as a high place and the abode of deities. Sacrifices were made to the god for their continued benevolence.

Chinese Mountain Gods

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Asian tutelary deities, with shrines dedicated to them that look similar to Daoist deity traditions. Houtu is the overlord of all of the Tudigongs, "Lord of Local Land", Sheji, "the State", Shan Shen, "God of the Mountains", City Gods, "God of Loal City", and landlord gods that exist worldwide.

Shanshen

slwindro — 2024-08-06 19:40:15 UTC

Shanshen is the Chinese Mountain God, they worshiped the mountains and deified them, and many ghosts and spirits are supposed attached to the mountains. It's said that upon the mountain they evolved and each peak of the mountain is now inhabited by personalized Shanshen.

Shanshen Sacrifices

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People would perform sacrificial rituals that would produce clouds, give wind and rain, and sea monsters that are all called gods. The Gods perform the most sacrifices for the Heavens and Earth, they would make them with jade buried in the ground, and additionally a sacrificial method of "casting" and "hanging" where chickens, goats, pigs, or jade being thrown into valleys or hung in treetops.

Gardens

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Garden of Eden

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A terrestrial paradise. A garden is described in the Book of Genesis as a source of four tributaries. The Garden is supposed to be a symbolic space of peace and harmony where happiness reigns supreme. Humanity is supposed to have sought it on Earth as if it were a secret garden. The Garden of Eden is metaphorical and is supposed to represent any place where you feel at true peace in the world.

Zen Gardens - Japanese

slwindro — 2024-08-06 20:06:48 UTC

Zen Gardens are small gardens that originated in Japan and have much representation to them. They are full of carefully placed stones and boulders that symbolize mountains as the rocks are essential and said to be the "bones" of the earth. The white sand represents the flowing water in the gardens.

Garden Vibes

slwindro — 2024-08-06 20:16:47 UTC

Representative of purity and untouched nature. Often plants are related to calmness in nature, and flowers are representative of fertility. Gardens are sacred places and often mimic valleys and the most beautiful spots of nature, similar to a keepsake. Gardens are highly individual to religion and personal preferences.

Adam and Eve

slwindro — 2024-08-07 19:03:12 UTC

The "original sin", a snake convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit from a tree as she was hungry, god cursed her for her sins. This gives way to the Garden of Eden where the apples hanging from the trees represent the dangers of playing god.

The Apple

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Eve was not supposed to eat the apple for she would lose her immortality, eating the apple gives them knowledge which equals becoming god. The trees represent free will with the apples representing the dangers of playing god.

Olive Trees

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Represent peace, "extending an olive branch", the possibility of life, and kinship.

Olive Oil, religious oil, lighting lamps, used in cooking, a connection with sustaining life.

Buddhism

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Bohdi/Fig Tree, THE tree. Buddha sat under this tree and gained enlightenment, one of the oldest trees.

Islam Trees

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Symbolizes the end of human knowledge. Gnostic. Boundary between heavens and material world.

Hinduism Fig Trees

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The holy Fig Tree in Hinduism is often linked with the image of the Tree of Life. The roots of the peepal tree are where Lord Brahma dwells, the trunk contains Lord Vishnu, and the leaves house Lorn Shiva representing the immortal and indestructible nature of the soul.

Fig Tree

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The Bible, represents God's wish with man.

Norse Mythology

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Yggdrasil, Odin hanged himself on the tree of Yggdrasil. He then hanged himself in Yggdrasil, the tree of life, for nine days and nine nights to gain knowledge of other worlds and be able to understand the rules.

Greek Mythology

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Oak Tree

Groot

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Symbolizes purity, self-sacrifice, self-growth, and human development. He wants to protect his friends despite his own life. Rebirth/ReGrowth.

New Book Additions

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Three;

Mountains have three heavenly gates, three symbolize a holy number and have ties to multiple different religions

Ascending;

As you go up you see things more like a god, highly symbolizing of ascension. As you get to the second gate it gets far more arduous as you enter the mouth of the dragon and it's much harsher. Ritual Ascension, gorg, patterns of moving upwards and swirls as things start to branch off of one thing. The last peak represents success and achievement. Lines represent Earth, Oceans, and the Heavenly realms.

Peach Tree of Longevity;

Monkey Tree, he takes peaches and runs up the mountain and you have to chase him.

Japanese Picture of the Heavens;

Above the moons, sun, and land, cloud-like imagery is everywhere, a representation of the human world and the god's worlds heading above as fewer houses are seen and more monasteries.

Mountains;

Can symbolize where the gods live and ascension but additionally can show death and rebirth. To know god you must encounter, beat, and accept death before being rebirthed. Must imagine dying and entering the womb of the mountain itself.

Caves;

The womb of the mountain represents the psyche.

Movie Quiz

slwindro — 2024-08-08 20:02:15 UTC

Run into a cave to hide from flood. Cave = Womb. Cave filling is the beginning of rebirth. They confess their woes as they begin to see the world for what it is, they escape from the cave and come out of water as a Symbolism of rebirth and baptism, they become new people.

Mount Sinai

slwindro — 2024-08-08 20:11:37 UTC

Where Moses came out with the Ten Commandments. Important.