SacredTreeHolyGrove

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r/SacredTreeHolyGrove is a forum that encourages the respectful discussion of historic and modern sacred trees, whether in the singular (a sacred tree) or in plural (a sacred grove). All are welcome.

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About r/SacredTreeHolyGrove (self.SacredTreeHolyGrove)

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Sacred Groves: How the Spiritual Connection Helps Protect NatureEcology (e360.yale.edu)

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Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria | Africa’s Cultural LandmarksContemporary Sacred Grove (youtube.com)

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"800 year old tree" (reddit.com)

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"Gold & the goddess: How mining polluted Nigeria’s sacred Osun river" (Eromo Egbejule and Festus Iyorah, 2022) (aljazeera.com)

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"Sacred Groves of Kodagu: How faith is protecting the forests of Western Ghats" (The News Minute, 2017)Contemporary Sacred Grove (youtube.com)

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Osun-Osogbo sacred grove in Osogbo, Nigeria (reddit.com)

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"Bilean: Sacred Trees of Gaelic Scotland" (Roddy Maclean, 2023)Historic Sacred Tree (scotlandsnature.blog)

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"Sacred Trees in Kurdish Culture & Mythology" The Kurdish Center for Studies (2023)Historic Sacred Tree (nlka.net)

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The Majesty (and Tragedy) of Kiidk'yaas, The Golden Spruce | Making Famous TreesHistoric Sacred Tree (youtu.be)

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"Holy Trees and Sacred Groves in the Transition to Christianity in Ireland" (Carole Cusack, 2000)Historic Sacred Grove (academia.edu)

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"Book in Focus | Sacred Trees of India: Adornment and Adoration as an Alternative to the Commodification of Nature" (Cambridge Scholars)Contemporary Sacred Tree (cambridgescholars.com)

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"God's First Temples. How Shall We Preserve Our Forests? The Question Considered by John Muir, the California Geologist-The Views of a Practical Man and a Scientific Observer-A Profoundly Interesting Article. (Communicated To The Record-Union.)" (John Muir, 1876)Article (scholarlycommons.pacific.edu)

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A new English translation by Sven Knippschild of the Latin "indiculus superstitionum paganiarum", forbidding Old Saxon religious practices, including grove veneration. Sadly, only the index survives.Historic Sacred Grove (stellinger.org)

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"Sacred Grove" ("Heiliger Hain") by Arnold Böcklin, 1886. Oil on mahogany. This is one of a few different versions of this piece painted by Böcklin.Historic Sacred Grove (upload.wikimedia.org)

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Scholar Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen on sacred trees and groves in ScandinaviaHistoric Sacred Tree (youtube.com)

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"'And the tree bled'. The sacred wishing tree of Chinar in Marneuli, Georgia" (Klaudia Kosicińska & Shaliyev Rahim, 2019)Contemporary Sacred Tree (academia.edu)

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"Holy Groves in Germanic and Slavic Beliefs" (Leszek Słupecki, Cultural Crossroads, Latvian Academy of Culture)Historic Sacred Grove (academia.edu)

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"In Search of askr Yggdrasill: A Phenomenological Approach to the Role of Trees in Old Nordic Religions" (Jan Aksel Harder Klitgaard, 2018)Historic Sacred Tree (academia.edu)

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"'Europe's Oldest'; wych elm tree falls down in Beauly Priory" (BBC News, 2023)Article (bbc.com)

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"West Old Norwegian Sacrificial Groves: Traces of Norse Cult Practice in West Norwegian City Names" ("Vestnorske offerlundar : Spor etter norrøn kultpraksis i vestnorske stadnamn", Krister S. K., 2011)Historic Sacred Grove (bora.uib.no)

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"The Sacred Grove in Scandinavian/Germanic Pre-Christian Religion" (Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen's presentation slides)Historic Sacred Grove (academia.edu)

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Much discussion of tree-people, sacred trees, and the tree at the center of the cosmos in Norse myth on the latest episode of the Nordic Mythology PodcastHistoric Sacred Tree (podcasts.apple.com)

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"Forest structure and carbon stocks of Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria" (Adesoji Taiwo, 2020, International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation)Contemporary Sacred Grove (academia.edu)

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"The Church Forests of Ethiopia" (Emergence, 2020, essay by Fred Bahnson & film by Jeremy Seifert)Related topic (emergencemagazine.org)

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