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How many cultures have a "Tree of Life" symbol?
Where can this symbol be found?
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The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many spiritual and mythological traditions around the world. In various cultures it is known as the Cosmic Tree, the World Tree and the Holy Tree. The Tree of Life symbolizes many things, including wisdom, protection, strength, bounty, beauty, and redemption. This wise and holy Tree is like the Creator as it sustains creation with its abundant fruit, protection and generativity. The Tree is also like human beings as we develop roots, strengthen our trunk and branch out to a wider vision of life as we grow.
In Christianity, the tree is seen as both the vehicle by which sin came into the world (via the serpent encouraging humanity to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the garden) and a symbol of redemption, as Jesus was crucified on a cross made from a tree.
In Buddhism itt was beneath the great Bodhi tree, the great Tree of Enlightenment, that Buddha was said to redeem the whole universe under its protective branches.
Others - Alchemy, Nordic, shamanic, minoan .
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