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Trees of the Ancients – Tree of Life E2

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The Tree of Life

Osborne: Tree imagery has three interwoven layers of significance. He says deities and their powers to give fertility are often associated with tree symbolism. The king becomes the tree of life as the embodiment of the gods, he adds. Osborne: This is an image that has its pre-Israelite and long afterlife into the Israelite period.

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