The Tree of Life symbol has ancient origins dating back approximately 5,000 years to Mesopotamian civilization, where it was originally represented as a palm tree, predating the Norse mythology version (Yggdrasil, an ash tree) by millennia.
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Right, so we got asked a question by Gone Looking In.
And it was which Tree of Life symbol is the oldest or um original one.
I think it's original one or origin.
Well, I always thought it was Ah, how do you pronounce it? Yggdrasil?
Ygg- Yggdrasil. It's the Norse um old Norse one um with Odin. So, it's like the Viking one, the Norse mythology one.
So, I always thought that was kind of the oldest in my head and that's always what I I see as the symbol of Tree of Life. But actually goes back further than that, 5,000 years before Christ was born, just so you got a time frame.
Um Mesopotamian, so the people of Mesopotamia and there are um carvings and if we can get the picture, we'll put a picture up of a carving of people in Mesopotamia and they believed in the tree of life, and it was actually a palm tree. Whereas the the one with Norse mythology is actually the ash tree, and that's the ash tree is the tree of Odin, and he hung upside that for 9 days um to find knowledge, and lost an eye.
He gave an eye for to see the knowledge, if I remember rightly.
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But yeah, that's far as far I know, it's Mesopotamian, 5,000 BC, and it was a palm tree.
Well, I think like loads of people see their tree of life different trees and different symbols. For me, like I said, it is the ash tree, and that's the Norse Norse mythology. So, yeah, great question.
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