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Abraham in the Cosmic Heart – 356 viewsIn ancient Abrahamic tradition, Abraham was found within a sacred orchard, in the center of a flaming tree dropping blossoms upon the earth. The Heart and the Tree are sometimes corresponding images, and refer to the throne of heaven.
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The Tree Underneath a Double Rainbow – 422 viewsAn actual photograph of a double rainbow circumscribing a tree. A poetic image of the mythic tree of life.
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Egyptian Temple – 418 viewsMany ancient structures were themselves images of the axis mundi, or Tree of Life. In this floorplan of an Egyptian Temple, the entering chamber has a pair of holy wells into which the roots of the cosmos draw up the energies of creation. Every succedding chamber is allegorical to climbing the tree of cosmos.
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Cedars of Mitla's – 547 viewsThis is an actual tree growing in Mitla, Mexico. It is a species of cedar and is the largest single-bio-mass in the western hemisphere. The tree is over 100 feet tall and contains 850,000 cubic feet of wood.
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Mitla's Tree of Life – 3352 viewsMitla Mexico cedar tree. The trunk is wide enough to drive three semis through it side by side with room to spare. This tree has over 850,000 square feet of wood.
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Tree Growing Over Stelle – 651 viewsI had to interject the power of nature in this image, which I took in Mexico at a site named Balamku. Here a tree is literally growing over an eight foot stelle showing the power of nature and metaphorically showing at the heart of the Tree of Life is the pillar of knowledge, or also the coffin of Osiris.
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Tree of Life in Alchemy – 622 viewsHere is depicted a man whose body is fixed in the root container of waters from which the Tree of Life grows. The man's soul is tranformed and is embraced by the angel of Heaven. The Tree of Life is a symbol of creation and transformation for both the macrocosmos and microcosmos.
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Egyptian Tree of Life – 514 viewsHere is a depiction of an Egyptian Tree of Life atop the Fount of Living Waters and producing the elixir of life. The Tree is often associated with an ever flowing fount or the waters of creation.
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The Asgard Tree – 571 viewsThis is the World Tree of Norse Mythology. Images synonymous with the World Tree are also the Mountain, Rivers, Cosmic Pole or Axis, or Three Worlds of Ancient Cosmology.
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Tomb Lid of Pakal – 450 viewsHere Pakal sits within the branches of the Cosmic Tree, above a quetzal bird represents the heavenly domain, below the Unerworld Monster stands ready to consume Pakal's body.
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Christian Cross & Four Rivers – 403 viewsThis is a representation of the Christian Tree of Life, in the form of a cross (the images are synonymous). The cross sits atop the four rivers of Eden. The Tree of Life image is always associated with springs, wells, and/or rivers.
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