World Tree Cosmologies

myth:world_tree_cosmologies

Many peoples set a great tree or pillar at the centre of the world, joining the realms above, here, and below: the Norse Yggdrasil that binds the nine worlds and at whose roots sit the Norns; the world-trees of the Maya; the Siberian shaman's tree the soul climbs. The axis of the cosmos, the still point the turning sky wheels about. — world myth