tree cult

The Tree Cult do not believe in the taking of life.

Tree cults were almost universal in the ancient world of the future.

Have you come across the Tree Cult, young man?

The Tree Cult believe that all war is evil.

Possibly there was a link between the tree cult and the sanctity of the pillar.

Her association with tree cults and marriage ceremonies persuasively hints at an early fertility role of some kind.

My wife became enamoured of the Tree Cult, a group outlawed in Stone.

A tree cult was also maintained.

How many of the Tree Cult thrive in Goriasa?

It seems to me that there are similarities between the Tree Cult and the beliefs of the Keltoi.

UK Porcupine Tree Cult band, but well worth a listen.

"They can be both," said Banouin, more comfortable now that the conversation had seemingly veered away from the Tree Cult.

But the church's calmer, wiser minds intervened and endorsed the Christianization of tree cults as an aid to piety.

After three years of burnings, hangings and torture there are probably now more followers of the Tree Cult than there were at the start.

The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities.

There was certainly a tree cult, and it may be that priestesses performing rituals in front of the tree were regarded as epiphanies of the tree deity.

I like much of what I have heard about the Tree Cult, about their caring for one another, and their refusal to be drawn into the circle of hate.

By the week's end the fading emperor would be replaced by Nalademus, the Tree Cult would begin to wither, and Voltan would be placed in charge of the army.

He had been second in command at the massacre of Shelsans, when two thousand devotees of the New Tree cult had been put to the sword, or taken alive and burned.

Alternatively, since the veneration of pillars extends beyond the Germanic cultural area, they may originate in the belief in the world pillar (as seen in the Saxon Irminsul and the Old Norse Yggdrasill) and thus derive from an archaic tree cult.

It is possible that there was a connection between the idea of bird epiphanies and the sacred tree cult; birds descending from the heavens as messengers or transformations of deities were seen to alight in trees, which conferred sanctity on the trees as the act suggested that the gods themselves had chosen the trees as their shrines.