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Mircea Eliade - Yggdrasil
Identifier
017128
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Patterns in Comparative Religion – Mircea Eliade
Yggdrasil was the symbol of the Universe, but to the Germans of old any oak tree could become sacred if it partook of this archetypal condition, if it repeated Yggdrasil.
Similarly, to the Altai peoples any birch tree might be consecrated and so become the Tree of the World and by mounting it ritually the shaman would in reality be climbing beyond the heavens.
Mircea Eliade
Yggdrasil is a cosmic tree par excellence. Its roots go to the very heart of the earth, where hell and the kingdom of the giants are to be found
The source of the experience
NorseConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
BirchIndian rope trick
Map of the Egg
Mountain
Oak
Rainbow
Rivers and streams
The Three Worlds
Tree of life