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Aravah (Hebrew: ערבה , pl. aravot - ערבות ) is a leafy branch of the willow tree. It is one of the Four Species (arbaʿath haminim - ארבעת המינים ) used in a special waving ceremony during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The other species are the lulav (palm frond), hadass , and etrog .
The pagan Germanic peoples referred to holy places by a variety of terms and many of these terms variously referred to stones, groves, and temple structures. From Proto-Germanic *harugaz, a masculine noun, developed Old Norse hǫrgr meaning 'altar', Old English hearg 'altar', and Old High German harug meaning 'holy grove
The mitzvah of waving the four species derives from the Torah. Leviticus 23:40 states: . And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the L ORD your God for seven days.
"Green Willow" is a Japanese ghost story in which a young samurai falls in love with a woman called Green Willow who has a close spiritual connection with a willow tree. [77] "The Willow Wife" is another, not dissimilar tale. [78] "Wisdom of the Willow Tree" is an Osage Nation story in which a young man seeks answers from a willow tree ...
A tree deity or tree spirit is a nature deity related to a tree. Such deities are present in many cultures. Such deities are present in many cultures. They are usually represented as a young woman, often connected to ancient fertility and tree worship lore. [ 1 ]
A wandering priest, Yugyō Shonin, is given directions by an old man who recites Saigyō's poem before vanishing: the priest then realises it was the spirit of the willow tree. [4] By reciting a prayer to Amida Buddha, he enables the spirit to attain Buddhahood, for which the willow spirit thanks him in a dance sequence. [5]
Trees in Chinese mythology and culture tend to range from more-or-less mythological such as the Fusang tree and the Peaches of Immortality cultivated by Xi Wangmu to mythological attributions to such well-known trees, such as the pine, the cypress, the plum and other types of prunus, the jujube, the cassia, and certain as yet unidentified trees.
W. B. Yeats describes a "holy tree" in his poem "The Two Trees" (1893). In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, one of the main religions, that of "the old gods" or "the gods of the North", involves sacred groves of trees ("godswoods") with a white tree with red leaves at the center known as the "heart tree".