tree worship
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He explored primitive magic, tree worship, the divinity of kings, taboo, human sacrifice, the scapegoat, fertility rites, myths, festivals of fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ash Ygdrasyl of the Edda, the oak of Dordona and of the Druid, the modern Christmas tree, the sacred banyan, the holy groves, illustrate but faintly the prevalence of tree worship.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Signs of tree worship and of belief in transmigration are sporadic.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Then we have "Green Oak Tree Rocky-o" answering to the tree worship.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
Worship, tree worship compared with Hebrew-Phoenician Ashera cult, 689; symbolical in Bab.,
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
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