Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Speaking or personified trees

speaking_or_personified_trees

A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family, within the sub-family Divinized, Animate, and Wonder-Working Trees. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


greek

  • Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE BOY AND THE FILBERTS / THE FROGS ASKING FOR A KING / THE OLIVE-TREE AND THE FIG-TREE / THE LION AND THE BOAR; lines 342-384 confidence: low

    THE BOY AND THE FILBERTS; THE OLIVE-TREE AND THE FIG-TREE

    The title 'THE OLIVE-TREE AND THE FIG-TREE' places two trees as paired fable subjects.

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