Ishtar, Inanna, Astarte, and Aphrodite
Symbols: Doves, roses, and the myrtle tree.
The Oversoul and Soul Family Explained
Other interpretations link the oversoul to symbolic systems like the Tree of Life or Yggdrasil.
Sadhguru Reveals the Hidden Truth About Animals
Certain behaviors of birds, such as avoiding tamarind trees at night, reflect their acute physical sensations.
Key contributors to this issue include the loss of trees and the decline in animal populations.
Organic material from tree leaves and animal waste is essential for maintaining soil health.
For example, a sleeping bird can sense a snake approaching the tree.
This sensitivity explains why some trees, like tamarind, are avoided by birds at night.
Sadhguru emphasizes the need to integrate animals and trees into agricultural practices to restore soil health and ensure sustainability.
Ultimate Truth – Our Purpose on Earth
Like a tree, which exists solely in the present, humans are encouraged to embody the same grounded awareness.
The speaker explains the deep connections between humans and the Earth, using the Lakota word “cante” (heart) to illustrate the symbolic link between a tree’s branches and the body’s lifelines.
Beneath the Earth’s surface, a vibrant network connects trees, creating a rhythm of life.
Nature serves as a teacher, imparting lessons through the patience of trees, animals, and other life forms, demonstrating how to coexist.
Placing the Sons of Noah on the Y Chromosome Tree
Rob discusses his evolving perspective on interpreting the Y chromosome tree in relation to Noah’s sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
He previously tried to align branches of the Y chromosome tree with each son but now sees this approach as overly simplistic.
This approach allows for a more rigorous examination of whether genealogies can realistically be compared to genetic trees without adding assumptions not present in the biblical text.
Rob explores whether the genealogies in Genesis could align with genetic data, specifically by comparing the genealogies with the Y chromosome family tree.
He emphasizes that although it may be challenging to definitively place them on the family tree, the broader pattern of genetic spread is consistent with a biblical framework.
Rob directs viewers to his article, “Can We Place the Sons of Noah on the Y Chromosome Family Tree?” on Creation.com, and additional resources on topics like DNA mutation and genealogy.
The Secrets of Ancient Knowledge Buried for Centuries
In earlier traditions, the serpent and the tree were symbols of wisdom and empowerment, but patriarchal traditions reshaped these stories into narratives of punishment and control.
Landmasses hidden from the public, dragons & more.
A central, ancient tree holds the collective knowledge of the island and foretells future events.
The tree, perceived as wise and protective, shares with the dragon that everything on the island possesses its unique soul and purpose.
This tree also warns that the island’s time as a sanctuary will end, signaling a shift toward a human-dominated world.
The tree reveals that the island and its inhabitants are part of an evolutionary cycle and hints at reincarnation, where all beings will eventually transform, including dragons, into human forms.
The tree and island will remain hidden, safeguarded by this protective field for thousands of years.
Adam & Eve – 13,000 BCE
In the Adam and Eve story, the act of eating from the Tree of Knowledge resulted in humanity's fall from grace—a form of cosmic justice that resonates with the idea of karmic retribution.
Flood Stories from Around the World
In their extreme old age, they changed into an oak and lime tree.
The giant Bergelmir escaped, with his wife and children, on a boat made from a hollowed tree trunk.
This made the flea weep, which made the door creak, which made the broom sweep, which made the cart run, which made the ash-heap burn, which made the tree shake itself, which made the girl break her water-pitcher, which made the spring begin to flow.
The earth brought forth fine fruits, flesh grew on trees, and milk and wine flowed in many rivers.
The old man told the host to take a wife, gather his kinfolk, and build a boat on which to save them, animals, and seeds of trees and herbs.
Pygmy:Chameleon heard a strange noise, like water running, in a tree, but at that time there was no water in the world.
Mba was washed away and landed in the top of a tree.
A few people saved themselves on rafts made from bound-together tree trunks.
The fish led him to a northern mountain and told Manu to tie the ship's rope to a tree to prevent it from drifting.
Assam (northeastern India):A flood once covered the whole world and drowned everyone except for one couple, who climbed up a tree on the highest peak of the Leng hill.
Du-mu was saved in a log hollowed out of a Pieris tree, together with his four sons and otters, wild ducks, and lampreys.
The parents of Mahei and Maniu, twin brother and sister, felled a big tree, hollowed it out, and covered both ends with cowhide.
Mahei suggested she consult the magic tree.
Maniu went there, but Mahei took a shortcut and hid behind the tree.
A mango tree grew from the celestial vault, and the younger brother climbed up to eat its fruit.
Gong Gong extended the flood for 22 years, and people had to live in high mountain caves and in trees, fighting with wild animals for scarce resources.
Two trees grew from their bellies as they slept and entangled together.
Korea:A son was borne to a fairy and a laurel tree; the fairy returned to heaven when the boy was seven years old.
The boy did so, floating on the tree for many days.
After asking the tree for permission, the boy gave them refuge on the branches of the laurel.
Again, the boy asked the tree for permission, was granted it, and gave the mosquitoes rest.
This time the tree refused permission when its son asked.
The son asked twice more, and after the third time the tree said, "Do what you like," and the son rescued the other boy.
At last the tree came to rest on the summit of a mountain.
A mosquito came and told the Son of the Tree which room the old woman's daughter was in, so those two were married, and the second boy married the foster-daughter.
The next day, the woman challenged them to a contest of gathering pine trees while her sons stacked them.
When it became clear that the four brothers ripped up the trees faster than the tigers could stack them, the woman set fire to the logs.
He sent a stream of fire-water (Sengle-Daa) from heaven, and all people died save a brother and sister who had hidden beneath a tiril tree (hence tiril wood is black and charred today).
They sat down in a row on a tree trunk, it broke, and they all cried out, and with that they were able to speak.
The log had settled on an oleaster tree, which is why the tree is crooked even to this day.
Bubo climbed the sun-moon tree on Mount Bachi to heaven to fight Thunder God.
A third vine twined around bushes and trees.
Getting angry, they felled trees, killed snakes and held sham funerals, caught owls and salamanders to play games with, and offered small jars of wine to Heaven's shrine.
All drowned except one woman, who survived through the fortunate chance that her hair got caught in a thorny tree as she drifted along on the tide.
When the flood sank, she came down from the tree and found herself alone.
Dusun (British North Borneo):Some men of Kampong Tudu, looking for wood for a fence, came upon what seemed to be a great tree trunk lying on the ground.
The woman noticed that the dog had found shelter from the rain under a creeper warmed by the rubbing between the creeper and a tree in the wind.
After the waters had descended, the woman saw a sheaf of rice hanging from an uprooted tree which drifted ashore where she was standing.
Alfoor (Celam, between Celebes and New Guinea):As a great worldwide flood receded, the mountain Noesake emerged with its sides clothed with trees whose leaves were shaped like female genitalia.
Crow cut down a big paperbark tree, which fell across a creek.
Crow sat on the tree crying out, "Waag.
The splash from the tree caused the water to rise, and the people, who were all on the bank of the creek, all drowned.
He went on and cut and ate a palm tree.
He ran back to others and told them that he had unknowingly done wrong to a djang palm tree.
They tried to burn the tree, but water came up from it.
One girl ran up a hill calling out; the others climbed a manbaderi tree.
The tree fell, and those in it drowned.
He died and turned into a certain milkwood tree.
When everyone else had fallen asleep, Crow climbed a tree and chopped off a branch, which fell and killed the two men.
It was spreading inland, too, but Bird Women came from the east and restrained the waters with a barrier of roots of the ngalda kurrajong tree.
All people were destroyed except those whom Bunjil loved and fixed as stars in the sky, and a man and a woman who climbed a tall tree on a mountain, and from whom the present human race is descended.
She called her husband, but he couldn't see it until he hid behind a banana tree and peeked through its leaves.
When the good man saw that, he hastily drove a pair of all kinds of animals into trees and climbed into a coconut tree with his family.
The woman, fast asleep, drifted until her hair caught on a tree on the top of Mount Armlimui.
They resolved vengeance by flooding the village, and suggested Milathk save herself by preparing a raft tied to a tree by a rope.
The legendary hero Qat made a great canoe out of one of the largest trees in a dense forest at the center of the island of Gaua.
Even the trees and stones were carried away by the wind.
When the wind died away, stones and trees began to fall from the heavens, where the winds had carried them.
Then in three days all the trees bore fruit.
At her suggestion, they fled to the mountains and built their home in the tops of the tallest trees.
The people fled to the mountains, and the flood covered the mountains; they climbed the trees, and the flood rose above the trees and drowned them all.
They huddled together for warmth as uprooted trees drifted past.
Uprooted trees, devil-fish, and other strange creatures washed past.
When the waters ebbed, the survivors followed the tide down the mountain, but the trees were all gone, and the people, having no firewood, perished of cold.
He told other people, but they laughed at him and said they'd climb trees in the event of a flood.
Then came a great flood, with water gushing from all sides, rising higher than the trees and drowning all people but the Wise Man and his family on his raft.
He took trees to be his wives, and from them the Indians are descended.
They enclosed their children, along with supplies, in hollow trees.
The earth had no mountains or trees before the flood.
Nearly all people floated on logs and trees in different directions.
The husband escaped up a tree.) [Kelsen, pp.
Many died when their canoes were caught in trees.
When people started talking to the trees the change came in the form of a flood.
The people escaped in their canoes to the highest peak in their country, which they call "Fastener." With long ropes, they tied their canoes to the tallest tree on the peak, but the water rose over it.
When he reached the earth, he had to travel over rocks, sticks, and trees, and everything he touched has henceforth contained fire.
Olelbis directed Tsurat (woodpecker) to carry Hlihli (white oak acorn) over the earth; meal drifted out of it, and oak trees sprung up everywhere.
Trees fell down westward.
A little earth came into being, and it turned into all kinds of trees.
Blue Jay, Crested Jay, and Coyote planted trees.
Olle then took a sack from his roundhouse and beat it against an oak tree, creating fog.
He beat another sack against the tree, causing more fog, and then rain.
They succeeded, and Olle put the fire in the buckeye tree.
Naigaicho traveled over the earth making sea foods, creeks, trees, ocean waves, and generally making it comfortable for people.
The people climbed trees because there were no mountains to escape to.
He fled; a woodpecker directed him to a tall pine tree on a mountain.
Nenebojo climbed the tree and began building a raft, which he finished just as the waters reached his neck.
This attracted the attention of the serpent-king, and when Menaboshu saw it stick up its head, he immediately turned himself into a tree stump.
The serpent-king and other serpents saw nothing unusual but the new tree stump.
He climbed to the top boughs of a fir tree on the top of one tall mountain, and the waters stopped rising just as they reached his mouth.
Soon the water came to the top of the hill, and he climbed a tall pine tree there.
The water kept coming, and he told the pine tree to stretch itself to double its length.
He followed a river to a lake and found a kingfisher in a tree looking into the water, waiting for some of Wenebojo's nephew's guts to float by.
He ran to a bluff; a pine tree there told Wenebojo to climb it, and the tree stretched higher, saving Wenebojo from the flood with his nose barely above water.
After the first day of play, Manabush made himself into a pine tree near where the manidoes played.
When they returned the next morning, the manidoes were suspicious of the tree, so the sent for Grizzly Bear to claw it and Serpent to strangle and bite it.
Manabush climbed a great pine tree on the highest mountain.
When the waters still rose to threaten him, he commanded the tree to grow.
One particularly hard winter had earthquakes, volcanoes, and floods which destroyed all the trees.
Messou fired arrows into the trunks of trees, and the arrows turned into branches.
A giant eagle, Wanblee Galeshka, swept down, saved one girl from the flood, carrying her to a tree on the highest pinnacle, the only place not covered by water.
Papago (Arizona):Back when the sun was closer to the earth, Coyote foresaw the coming of a flood, gnawed down a great tree, entered it, and sealed the opening.
Huichol (western Mexico):A man clearing fields found the trees regrown overnight.
Per her instructions, he built a box from the fig tree and entered it with five grains of corn and beans of each color, fire with five squash stems to feed it, and a black bitch.
He waited five more days and sent out the woodpecker, which found the trees too soft and returned saying "Chu-ee, chu-ee!" He waited five days more and sent out the sandpiper, who reported back that the ground was hard, and the man ventured out.
Tepecano (southeast of Huichols):A man cleared trees every morning and found them regrown overnight.
These children were all born dumb until a dove from a lofty tree gave them languages, but different languages so that they couldn't understand each other.
Tlapanac (south central Mexico):A buzzard told a man working in the fields not to work anymore and caused all the trees that had been cut to rise again.
Totonac (eastern Mexico):A man, warned by God, survived the flood in a tree he had hollowed out.
Chol (southern Mexico):When the deluge came, some people survived by climbing into the highest trees.
When the waters were subsiding, the younger brother fell out of the ark, landed in a tree, and turned into a monkey.
They tried to escape onto their houses, into trees, and into caves, but the houses collapsed, the trees threw them off, and the caves slammed shut.
Makunaima created a great tree from which all food plants grew.
Sigu decided it would be best to chop down the tree and plant the seeds and cuttings so that the food would be widespread.
When the tree was felled, the animals discovered the hollow stump was filled with water containing all kinds of fresh-water fish.
Sigu led the birds and climbing animals to tall cocorite trees on the highest hill.
Sigu stayed with the birds in the cocorite tree, occasionally dropping seeds.
Arekuna (Guyana):Shortly after people arrived on earth, all crops grew on a single tree.
The culture hero Makunaima and his four brothers cut down the tree, and water immediately poured from the stump, and with it came fish.
Kuamachi and his grandfather Mahanama led them to the trees.
The star people climbed the trees and started eating fruit; they weren't afraid of only two people.
Kuamachi dropped one fruit; water came out of it, spread, and caused a flood, covering everything but the trees.
The surviving wounded Star people climbed back into the trees.
When he had created plants and trees, he came down from his heavenly mansion, climbed a tree, and chipped off bark with a large stone axe.
The chips turned into animals of all kinds when they fell into the river at the base of the tree.
Chibchachun was driven under the ground and made to hold it up (replacing the lignum-vitae trees which had held it before).
Yaruro (southern Venezuela):The first people neglected Kuma the creator, so she made it rain until only one sand dune and one tree stayed above water.
People escaped into the tree, but there were only leaves and rotten fruit to eat, and when people sat with their bottoms towards the water, a big fish would come by and bite them.
Some of the first beings survived by cutting down trees and floating on them.
He tied the canoe to a tree with a long cable of bushrope to prevent drifting too far from his old home.
The water rose to cover the earth, and people took refuge in the highest trees.
The sloth, an ancestor of the Ipurina, climbed the cassia tree to fetch fruits, as there was nothing else to eat.
They built a fire to drive the snake out of the hollow in a tree, where it lived.
The snake told him to take a calabash and flee to a palm tree on the highest mountain.
He fled to the top of a palm tree on the top of a mountain and returned many days later when the waters had subsided.
The mother of crocodiles was angered and lashed the water with her tail, which flooded the area and drowned all people except one man, who climbed a palm tree.
At that time a tree called the Pullao formed an arch between the Llantapa and Vichoca mountains; in it lived monkeys, toucans, and other birds.
When he had brought them to life, he ordered them into the earth to travel underground and emerge from caves, springs, tree trunks, etc.
Chorote (Eastern Paraguay):The bottle tree (Chorisia insignis) once contained all the water and all the fish.
The tree had a locked door.
The good brother and his wife climbed a pindona tree, and the evil brother and his wife climbed a geniper tree until the waters receded.
The brothers fled to the highest mountains and climbed trees.
Tamendonare climbed a pindona tree, helping one of his wives up with him, and Ariconte climbed a geniper tree with his wife.
The great god Tupi warned a medicine man named Tamanduare of a coming great flood that would cover the earth, and he told Tamanduare to seek refuge on a lofty peak with a palm tree at its top.
The water covered even the summit of the mountain, and Tamanduare and his family climbed into the palm tree and live there, eating its fruit, until the water subsided.
The Coroados made it and stayed there, some on the ground and some in the branches of trees.
When the flood subsided, the Coroados descended, except for the ones which had climbed into trees, who became monkeys.
Yoruba mythology
Afterward, Obatala planted the palm nut, which quickly grew into a palm tree.
This tree bore more nuts, which Obatala used to plant more trees, creating a rich landscape.
The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
When, after many years, death overtook them, they were changed into two trees, that side by side in the neighborhood--an oak and a linden." (Murray's "Mythology," p.
Athena caused the first olive-tree to grow on the Acropolis of Athens, parent of all the olive-trees of Greece.
And here we find a tradition which not only points to Atlantis, but also shows some kinship to the legend in Genesis of the tree and the serpent.
Titæa, "a goddess of the earth," gave Zeus a tree bearing golden apples on it.
This tree was put in the care of the Hesperides, but they could not resist the temptation to pluck and eat its fruit; thereupon a serpent named Ladon was put to watch the tree.
Genesis contains a history of Atlantis
Lord Kingsborough says: "The Toltecs had paintings of a garden, with a single tree standing in the midst; round the root of the tree is entwined a serpent, whose head appearing above the foliage displays the face of a woman.
gathered roses from a tree, and thereby disgraced and injured herself and all her posterity.
"In the beginning, before the light of the sun had been created, this land (Cholula) was in obscurity and darkness, and void of any created thing; all was a plain, without hill or elevation, encircled in every part by water, without tree or created thing; and immediately after the light and the sun arose in the east there appeared gigantic men of deformed stature and possessed the land, and desiring to see the nativity of the sun, as well as his occident, proposed to go and seek them.
iii., 22), "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:" therefore God drove him out of the garden.
59.) Jacob's ladder had its duplicate in the vine or tree of the Ojibbeways, which led from the earth to heaven, up and down which the spirits passed.
The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
In both continents we find tree-worship.
Folk-lore.--Says Max Müller: "Not only do we find the same words and the same terminations in Sanscrit and Gothic; not only do we find the same name for Zeus in Sanscrit, Latin, and German; not only is the abstract Dame for God the same in India, Greece, and Italy; but these very stories, these 'Mährchen' which nurses still tell, with almost the same words, in the Thuringian forest and in the Norwegian villages, and to which crowds of children listen under the Pippal-trees of India--these stories, too, belonged to the common heirloom of the Indo-European race, and their origin carries us back to the same distant past, when no Greek had set foot in Europe, no Hindoo had bathed in the sacred waters of the Ganges."
The Deluge Legends of America
All mankind are changed into fish, with the exception of one man and his wife, who save themselves in a bark made of the trunk of a cypress-tree.
Coxcox and Xochiquetzal, the two human beings preserved, are seen seated on a tree-trunk and floating in the midst of the waters.
Then were men seen running, pushing each other, filled with despair; they wished to climb upon their houses, and the houses, tumbling down, fell to the ground; they wished to climb upon the trees, and the trees shook them off; they wished to enter into the grottoes (eaves), and the grottoes closed themselves before them.
the rising water, the earthquake rocking the trees, overthrowing the houses, and crushing even the mountain caverns;
"Out of a sheet of water there projects the peak of a mountain; on it stands a tree, and on the tree a bird spreads its wings.
The Deluge Legends of Other Nations
The fish said, 'I have saved thee; fasten the vessel to a tree, that the water may not sweep it away while thou art on the mountain; and in proportion as the waters decrease thou shalt descend.' Manu descended with the waters, and this is what is called the descent of Manu on the Mountain of the North.
"Then trembles Yggdrasil's ash yet standing, groans that ancient tree, and the Jötun Loki is loosed.
The shadows groan on the ways of Hel (the goddess of death), until the fire of Surt has consumed the tree. Hyrm steers from the east, the waters rise, the mundane snake is coiled in jötun-rage.
Hermeticism and Ancient Mysteries
In Christianity, for example, symbols like the Christmas tree are drawn from pre-Christian European traditions.
Selestor’s Men of Atlantis
The seeds of fruits and trees were wafted from that land named Africa, and gems which made much wealth were once in galleys borne, and boats once torn to fragments by the wind and waves had given treasure to the ocean isle.
The girth of that lost land was thrice, mayhap, of this strange spot thou callest "State," * and every span was made a nest for seed, or to up-bear some work of man's deft art, or yet of forests grand with growth of giant trees.
Behold, O Soul of mine, I bring thee proof that Mayan industries throve through knowledge gleaned from other land in that dim past, for not upon the soil now clogged with rooted trees had they been born, but upon heights with snow besprinkled, or vast plains where they were once inhabitants, but fleeing from oppression set their feet—a generous band of "experts," on the soil of Yucatan.
Those courts held vases of the beaten stuff * ye coin, and barter, not "for good of soul," and crystal basins held the bloom of rose, or pungent dust that cast sweet breath around, and tiny trees sprang up, as Nature there had placed, in basket rooted in rich soil.
A garden in this circle shaded o’er from summer's heat by branching palms gave place for exercise, and also for the education of those youths who sought to till the soil; for all was done by pupil-digging of the soil—the planting of the seed—the budding task, to set to foreign wood the home-grown shrub or tree.
Couches were built from ivory tusks of creatures wandering where the growth of trees might hide from man.
Fish, flesh of "sheep," ye speak, and wheat—the mixture of the maize and "rice" with fiery fruits that grew there as the years brought foreign tree and shrub unto that isle.
the secret lies beneath the wave, but semblance have in that carven boat which men of statue shrunk make small in wood of tree-trunk; yet in them no slave sits dumb and plies the blade.
But when the rose tree's bloom did make a garden of the gods that favored land, there came an hour when the crafty Abbas' son did seek the confines of a garden fair, unfaithful to his beauteous Olasandron.
Before the dawn leaped up from sea and flung the shadow from old Day's broad face the son of Abbas left his garden tryst: The dew clung to the rose trees.
And far in shore the rock did set, though hid by giant trees which once invited storm-tossed mariners a-starve for fruits and gurgling springs which forests deep enfolded.
The fuel used in "smelting of the ores?" It was hardened tree trunks; aloes make heat as full of fierce and melting tendency as "coal," and aloe trees abounded there.
Tulip trees grew upon Atlantis, huge as the trees * in this, thy land called wonders of the world by ye in this strange spot; and these great tulip trees were hewn to staves and dried in matter-soaked in slime from out the gushing wells to southward on that island.
Great trunks of cypress shut the sun from faces dark, and eyes that blazed with feeling looked with awe—with pity, too, upon the son of him who for a beauteous face cast off the bloom of kingly tree.
Notched marble at the base, but upwards, broader grown, took color from the native tree in jasper, a stone from land afar in merchant galleys brought unto Atlantis.
Those yellow forms thou namest first came to shape, and soon a nation formed, in that dim morn when in the time of dearth Atlantis drew her bread supply from plains now rank with growth of trees—with bloom that cloys the sense, where serpents twine amid the broad, lush leaves, and beasts prowl greedily among coarse reeds which stand where once great grains of maize did grow.
The hordes hung long upon the footsteps of the caravan, and once attacked where desert met the trees which hid the wild assailants; but their mode of warfare being crude they fell an easy prey to those swart spearmen on the great brute's flanks perched arrogant.
A tree with plumes and fruitage sweet to lips and gladdening to eye, when day by day the barque has glided swift and brought the word of land to them who wait all eager at the prow.
The men of Asia planned attack, as did the Northmen, on the northern coast where trees set closely hid the inlets deep and no great quays with ships to guard were there.
No glance of recognition met the gaze of her, his queen, nor of them—the buds of kingly tree to bloom when he had passed, the daughters fair, and son, the prince—the king!
And as he lingered came an ancient one unto his door—door bereft of hanging, that the wind of eve might freshly blow across the clammy brow, perchance bring healing in its salted breath all scented with the kisses of the rose, the lily white which marked the king's domain, the jasmine growing where the palm tree's shade cast cooling shadows.
The children—heart-beats of a nation—danced to task, or lesson or their play beneath the spreading palms or rose tree's fragrant shade, or vines hung purple with the globes of life-blood for the weak.
The Story of Atlantis
Its root is tree-like.
Matias De Stefano Explains Traveling Through Dimensions
However, since all souls are part of a larger collective, or "tree of life," each person is inherently connected to the experiences of all other souls, even if they do not directly remember those lives.
The Oera Linda Book
She relates that they lived by fishing and hunting, and that they prepared the skins of the animals with the bark of the birch-tree in order to sell the furs to the Rhine boatmen, who brought them into commerce.
The earth bore grass, herbs, and trees, all useful and all noxious animals.
She could bend a large tree, yet when she walked she did not bruise a flower-stalk.
She could not bend a tree, but where Lyda killed one lion she killed ten.
No one shall fell trees without the consent of the community, or without the knowledge of the forester; for the forests are general property, and no man can appropriate them.[33]
The trees and shrubs produced various fruits, which are now lost.
There, behind high enclosures of trees or walls, they built palaces with costly furniture, and in order to remain in good odour with the nasty priests, they placed there likenesses of false gods and unchaste statues.
The seafaring men of Stavoren and Alderga would gladly have gone to Jon, but the great fleet was out on a distant voyage; so they proceeded in their small fleet to Medeasblik, and kept themselves concealed in a sheltered place behind trees.
She sought a hiding-place under the sheltering lime-trees, but the rain came, and the difficulty was that she got wet.
This is the way in which we became possessed of houses and porches, a street, and lime-trees to protect us from the rays of the sun.
On the south side of the outer fortification is the Liudgaarde, enclosed by the great wood of lime-trees.
Its shape is three-cornered, with the widest part outside, so that the sun may shine in it, for there are a great number of foreign trees and flowers brought by the seafarers.
He had let his soldiers cut down trees and make planks, with which, with the help of our carpenters, he had built ships.
Besides other creeping animals there are snakes from the size of a worm to the size of a tree.
All these reptiles, like the snakes, vary from the size of a worm to the trunk of a tree.
In my country we have trees bearing berries, as large as your lime-trees, the berries of which are much sweeter and three times as large as your gooseberries.
KEYS 43: The Apple
Biblical Context: The apple is often associated with the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, where it symbolizes the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Decoding the Kabbalah Tree
Gafni introduces Kabbalah, describing it as a science of intimacy, and introduces the Tree of Life, a key Kabbalistic concept that conveys the mathematical structure of divinity.
Kabbalah, according to Gafni, is not only about mysticism but also a systematic "mathematics of intimacy." This framework, primarily represented by the Tree of Life, is built on ten "stories" or emanations (sefirot) that express the qualities of divinity.
The Tree of Life, central to Kabbalistic teaching, is described as a map of ten sefirot or emanations of divine qualities.
Gafni delves into the Tree of Life, breaking down each of the ten sefirot:
Gafni emphasizes that the Tree of Life is not just an abstract concept but a practical framework for living.
Climate Cycles and the Coming Changes
Kryon highlights that scientists who study tree rings, ice cores, and geological formations can trace the Earth's weather patterns.
Overview of the Tree of Life
Spirit Science introduces the topic of the Kabbalah, commonly referred to as the Tree of Life.
The speaker explains that while many have heard of the Tree of Life, only a few understand its deeper meaning.
According to Dion Fortune, the Tree of Life is a diagrammatic representation of every force and factor in the universe and the soul of humanity, correlating them to reveal their interrelations.
The Tree of Life consists of ten spheres, or Sephiroth, and 22 interconnected pathways.
These are collectively known as the 32 paths of the Tree of Life.
The Tree of Life is based on the interaction of three forces, symbolized by male, female, and child energies, or more broadly, the polarity between two extremes and the balance in the middle.
The tree also contains three triangles:
There are three significant barriers within the Tree of Life:
This overview serves as an introduction to the complex system of the Tree of Life.
Trauma
He then connected this concept to how ancestors and the family tree further divide the self into different parts, shaping organs and the body.
Changing Consiousness
As a child, Kovács learned the Judaic story of the Tree of Life, where Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from the tree in the Garden of Eden.
In contrast, she later studied the Sumerian version, where the gods offered humanity the fruit of the Tree of Life freely, symbolizing enlightenment and connection with the divine.
Life is based on memory
Sadhguru discusses the karma vastra, a cloth tied to a tamarind tree at Dhyanalinga, explaining that it is used to collect and store the memory of the deceased.
The Mistake of a Life
I knew that from love of me Lolix had first repressed heartless remarks, then taken an interest in relieving suffering for its own sake, and so had become transformed from a beautiful thorn tree to a glorious rose of womanly loveliness, with few thorns indeed.