Category: History - Ancient

Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship

Characteristics of Trees--Naturalness of Tree Worship--Origin of the worship--The Tree of Life--Ancient Types--A Tree as a Symbol of Life--Poetical Associations--Sacred Fig-tree--India specially a land of Tree Worship--Trees identified with Gods-- Meritoriousness of planting T...

Chapters

15. CHAPTER VII.

In his "Northern Antiquities," M. Mallet says: "We have seen that the Icelandic mythology reckons up twelve goddesses, including Frigga, the spouse of Odin, and the chief of the...

14. CHAPTER VI.

_Usefulness of the Ash Tree--Its position among Sacred Trees--The Queen of Trees--Mythology of the Ash--Scotch superstitious usages--The "Ash Faggot Ball" Somersetshire--Pliny a...

8. CHAPTER I.

_Characteristics of Trees--Naturalness of Tree Worship--Origin of the Worship--The Tree of Life--Ancient Types--A Tree as a Symbol of Life--Poetical Associations--Sacred Fig Tre...

12. CHAPTER IV.

Ceylon had its _Bogaha_, or "God Tree," and when Sir William Ousley was in that country in 1810, he was presented with a number of pieces of the wood found in its forests, among...

11. CHAPTER III.

_Arab Tree Worship--Story of Kaimun, the Captive Slave--Miracle of the Date Tree--Persian Bushes--Plane Tree--The Great Cypress--The Old Man of Diarbekir--The Feroüers--Anecdote...

9. CHAPTER II.

_The Bael Tree--Worship of the Left Hand--Trees of the Sun and Moon--The Arbre Sec or Dry Tree--The Holy Tree of Bostam--The Bygas of the Eastern Sathpuras--Tree Worship in Myso...

13. CHAPTER V.

_Sacred Trees very ancient in Egypt--Hebrew Trees--The Sycamore at Matarea--Ionic forms--The Koran on Mary and the Palm Tree--Sacredness of the Palm in Egypt--Tree Worship in Da...

10. iv. 3), must immediately recur to a Biblical reader; but the course of

this article will remind him also of that humble bush which the Lord consecrated by his presence, when he revealed himself to Moses in flaming fire on the mountain of Horeb (Exo...

6. CHAPTER VI. 64

Usefulness of the Ash-tree--Its position among Sacred Trees-- The Queen of Trees--Mythology of the Ash--Scotch Superstitious Usages--The "Ash Faggot Ball" of Somersetshire--Plin...

3. CHAPTER III. 32

Arab Tree Worship--Story of Kaimun, the captive slave--Miracle of the Date Tree--Persian bushes--Plane-tree--The Great Cypress--The old man of Diarbekir--The Fervüers--Anecdote...

2. CHAPTER II. 16

The Bael-tree--Worship of the Left Hand--Trees of the Sun and Moon--The Arbre Sec, or Dry Tree--The Holy Tree of Bostam--The Bygas of the Eastern Sathpuras--Tree Worship in Myso...

1. CHAPTER I. 1

Characteristics of Trees--Naturalness of Tree Worship--Origin of the worship--The Tree of Life--Ancient Types--A Tree as a Symbol of Life--Poetical Associations--Sacred Fig-tree...

5. CHAPTER V. 58

Sacred Trees very ancient in Egypt--Hebrew Trees--The Sycamore at Matarea--Ionic Forms--The Koran on Mary and the Palm-tree-- Sacredness of the Palm in Egypt--Tree Worship in Da...

7. CHAPTER VII. 85

4. CHAPTER IV. 44