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Destiny: JD Walker: Under the Sacred Canopy of Trees

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The Importance of Community in Christian Traditions

The idea was that this tree absorbed the history of the tribe. Ermazil was probably a big oak tree at one time for a particular Saxon group of Celtic folks. That's why it was so important whenever tribes or clans would attack one another to go to the center of that community and cut down that tree. And I think it was very interesting when we speak about some of the Lithuanian and Central European traditions. They were some of the last to be converted to Christianity.

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