Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Worship or religious veneration paid to trees by primitive races of men, from the belief that they were the fixed abode or a favorite resort of spirits capable of influencing human destiny.
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- noun the worship of trees
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Examples
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[Link] I don't know about this "dendrochronology" stuff (sounds to me like some sort of pagan tree-worship), but I do know that the Balch House (pictured below in a very, very old photograph) looks very, very old to me.
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Before leaving the Continental historians, reference may be made to the abundant evidence of Germanic tree-worship to be gathered from them.
The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday
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Down the centuries from the Druid tree-worship comes the spell of the walnut-tree.
The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley
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_The World-Ash_, generally called Yggdrasil's Ash, is one of the most interesting survivals of tree-worship.
The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday
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Many factors played a part in the development of tree-worship but it is probable the origin of the sacredness of trees must be assigned to the fact that it was acquired from the incense and the aromatic woods which were credited with the power of animating the dead.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The older mythologists, who only saw in it a sun-myth, overlooked the fact that since any weapon would have done to kill the God with, the mistletoe must have some special significance; and if it is a genuine part of the story, as we have no reason to doubt, it will be hard to overturn Dr. Frazer's theory that the Baldr-myth is a relic of tree-worship and the ritual sacrifice of the God,
The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday
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Sacred groves were common among the ancient Germans, and tree-worship is hardly extinct amongst their descendants at the present day.
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However that may be, tree-worship is well attested for all the great European families of the Aryan stock.
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Proofs of the prevalence of tree-worship in ancient Greece and Italy are abundant.
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Proofs of the prevalence of tree-worship in ancient Greece and Italy are abundant.
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