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Here, as frequently elsewhere, it is dangerous to pull a bough. This dread of damaging special trees is familiar: Cato instructed the woodman to sacrifice to the male or female deity before thinning a grove, while in the Homeric poem to Aphrodite the tree nymph is wounded when the tree is injured, and dies when the trunk falls. [1]
Nang Ta-khian (Thai: นางตะเคียน, "Lady of Ta-khian") is a female spirit of the folklore of Thailand. It manifests itself as a woman that haunts Hopea odorata trees. These are very large trees known as Ta-khian (ตะเคียน) in Thai, hence her name. [1]
Ask and Embla, the first human beings in Norse mythology, created from trees and whose names may mean "ash" and "elm" Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem describing the crucifixion of Jesus from the point of view of a sentient tree; Hlín, a Norse goddess whose name some scholars have suggested may mean 'maple tree'
These deities can also govern natural features such as mountains, trees, or volcanoes. Accepted in animism , pantheism , panentheism , polytheism , deism , totemism , shamanism , Taoism , Hinduism , and paganism , the nature deity can embody a number of archetypes including mother goddess , Mother Nature , or lord of the animals .
Aranyani has the distinction of having one of the most descriptive hymns in the Rigveda dedicated to her. The Aranyani Suktam (Hymn 146 in the 10th mandala of the Rigveda) [4] describes her as being elusive, fond of quiet glades in the jungle, and fearless of remote places.
Daphne (/ ˈ d æ f n i /; DAFF-nee; Greek: Δάφνη, Dáphnē, lit. ' laurel '), [1] a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.
But, Christmas trees as we know them, began in 16th century Germany, when devout Christians brought dressed evergreen trees into their homes. And when early German settlers eventually landed in ...
In Norse mythology, Mímameiðr (Old Norse "Mimi's tree" [1]) is a tree whose branches stretch over every land, is unharmed by fire or metal, bears fruit that assists pregnant women, and upon whose highest bough roosts the cock Víðópnir. Mímameiðr is solely attested in the Old Norse poem Fjölsvinnsmál.