Sacred Tree

myth:sacred_tree

And the green world ensouled in its guardian, the great tree: the world-tree Yggdrasil that holds the nine worlds, the sacred grove and the tree of life, the Shinto forest-kami and the great beast-god of the woods, the Green Man with leaves for hair, and Tolkien's Ents who shepherd the forest and go to war for it. The tree as the meeting-place of the human and the living green. — comparative myth