Fascinating post, and what a great meditation you gave. The yew seems intuitively right. Here's something to wonder at. The region of the world known to linguists and anthropologists as Austronesia seems distant from Europe, especially northern Europe. If there's any first point of comparison, both regions of the world possess seafaring pasts (the ancient Austronesian migrations that peopled the oceans from Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island have been likened to the ancient technological equivalent of the modern-day Apollo moon landings). Myths and traditional lore vary across the Austronesian landscapes and seascapes, though certain tropes appear across them. One is the spiritual pairing of the heavenly great bird and of the great sea dragon in the depths of the sea. Another is that certain great trees characterized by branches that sprout secondary roots that trail down and go into the earth connect the spirit realm to the material realm. As soon as I saw the photo of the yew that you shared I was reminded of them. A note for the esoterically minded reader, Lemuria was located in one region of what later become Austronesia.
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Fascinating post, and what a great meditation you gave. The yew seems intuitively right. Here's something to wonder at. The region of the world known to linguists and anthropologists as Austronesia seems distant from Europe, especially northern Europe. If there's any first point of comparison, both regions of the world possess seafaring pasts (the ancient Austronesian migrations that peopled the oceans from Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island have been likened to the ancient technological equivalent of the modern-day Apollo moon landings). Myths and traditional lore vary across the Austronesian landscapes and seascapes, though certain tropes appear across them. One is the spiritual pairing of the heavenly great bird and of the great sea dragon in the depths of the sea. Another is that certain great trees characterized by branches that sprout secondary roots that trail down and go into the earth connect the spirit realm to the material realm. As soon as I saw the photo of the yew that you shared I was reminded of them. A note for the esoterically minded reader, Lemuria was located in one region of what later become Austronesia.