[[axis-mundi]] + [[trees]]
Different from [[tree-of-life]]
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- Question: What kind of tree did they have in mind? Oak?
## Biblio
[[philpot1897]]
## By Branch
Germanic [[yggdrasil]]
Celtic: [[green-mi1990]] , [[sayers2013]]
### Indic
[[KU-6.1]]
[[BG-15.1-3]]
- Question: What kind of tree did they have in mind? *Ficus religiosa*?, native to India & SE Asia. Called the asvattha/peepul/sacred-fig tree. Like the Nyagrodha or Banyan tree, the Asvattha can have aerial roots, that is, roots above ground level, which seems to have some symbolic significance.