'' The image of the tree was not chosen only to symbolize the cosmos but also to express life, youth, immortality, wisdom. In
addition to cosmic trees like the Yggdrasil of Germanic mythology, the
history of religions records trees of life (e.g., in Mesopotamia), of
immortality (Asia, Old Testament), of knowledge (Old Testament), of
youth (Mesopotamia, India, Iran), and so on. In other words, the tree came
to express everything that the religious man regards as pre-eminently real
and sacred, everything that he knows the gods to possess of their own nature and that is only rarely accessible to privileged individuals, the heroes and demigods.''
(από το ομώνυμο βιβλίο του Mircea Eliade)
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