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The conception of the tree rising through a number of worlds is found in northern Eurasia and forms part of the shamanic lore shared by many peoples of this region. This seems to be a very ancient conception, perhaps based on the Pole Star, the centre of the heavens, and the image of the central tree in Scandinavia may have been influenced by ...
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In the Book of Proverbs, the tree of life is associated with wisdom: "[Wisdom] is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy [is every one] that retaineth her." [35] In Proverbs 15:4, the tree of life is associated with calmness: "A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit." [36] [37]
This drawing made by a 17th-century Icelander shows the four stags on the World Tree. Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The ...
Kabbalistic tree with flaming sword in yellow. (The flaming sword that protects the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Life itself.) Based on diagram by Morgan Leigh: Date: 2007: Source: This is a derivative work of Morgan Leigh's "File:Tree of life wk 02.jpg" Author: Cronholm144: Other versions: derivative works. Македонски; Русский
[1]. The image was generated using iTOL: Interactive Tree Of Life [2], an online phylogenetic tree viewer and Tree Of Life resource.. ↑; ↑; Date: 1 July 2007: Source: Vectorization based on , all names in latin for possible usage in different languages.
By Eric Sandler On August 20, 1975 -- 39 years ago today -- NASA launched the first of two spacecraft as a part of their new Viking program and the images they captured back in the '70s and '80s ...
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