Motif
Deity enclosed in or residing in a tree
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A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6725-6799 confidence: high
Osiris is described as corn-spirit and tree-spirit. A pine-tree is cut, hollowed, and used to make an Osiris image placed in the hollow; the image is kept one year and then burned like the Attis image attached to a pine-tree.
Osiris is repeatedly described as a tree-spirit, as placed in a hollow tree image, as enclosed in an erica tree, as residing in trees, and as called "the one in the tree."
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