ALLEY Painting

A perennial plant with a hard trunk and departing from it branches, forming a crown. Almost everywhere a common way with the complex and multifaceted symbolism. The symbolism of the tree is determined by: vertical growth durability the structure of the tree (roots, trunk, branches, leaves) fruiting The axis of the world In many traditions and serves as a model of spatial and temporal relations, acts as both an image and the axis of the world (imago et axis mundi). This Cosmic Tree is correlated with the global vertical[1], around which is grouped a space, it unfolds manifested (material) world in the fullness of its manifestations and relationships. Mythology of different Nations use images of the world tree (and the world egg, see Egg world) as the main vertical characters, combining upper and lower worlds. In many cultures the tree is the road on which the shaman or his prayer ascend to heaven (the tree Sangmu in Chinese mythology). Correlated with the upper world of the sky — images of birds and stars on the top and the branches Mark the center of the world or of individual locus the place of death of the dying God of fertility: having summer and autumn abundance, he will rise again in spring with fresh foliage the leaves fall, but the tree comes to life again and puts on new foliage draws power from all four elements: the roots, earth and water, the crown — from the sun and from the air; tree roots submerged in the depths of the earth in contact with groundwater, is growing in the world of time (rings as an indicator of age), branches reach to heaven memorial sign the place of the courts and Assembly under the majestic trees (gods, lords) shelter the souls of the dead In one of Grimm's fairy tales Cinderella had planted a branch of hazel on the grave of his mother, and the twig grew into a tree that fulfills all the wishes of Cinderella. many peoples has a relationship with fire, his acquisition (by rubbing two pieces of wood together was the first fire) the practice of obtaining pure fire Trees often are styled for the female figure. ??? evergreen — immortality as a "linear" phenomenon; other — as a "cyclic" a tree with divergent and convergent branches of the Cosmic Tree a tree with two trunks and a single root — Space Tree two trees, one of which is a reflection of another — the Cosmic Tree a tree growing on the top or the column — Space Tree the object of worship the tree entwined with a snake — axis mundi and the cycles of manifestations of the material world, respectively snake (dragon) that guards the tree — the difficulty of introducing them to the wisdom (Tree of Knowledge) tree and stone (altar), together represent a microcosm: the stone represents eternal and unchanging, and the tree — transient and changeable the personification of deity, the Herald of his will (oak Dodon, the burning Bush of Moses, the sounds in the tops of the mulberry trees — 2nd Seq. to samarit., 5) trees with ten or twelve birds — solar cycle three birds — moon phases the symbolic activities are climbing the tree as a symbol of fashion and achieve other planes of existence unusual shaped (curved) tree is considered Holy and/or able to exert on the human impact (positive, negative, magic) in many cultures, certain trees (or a whole grove) are revered as the dwelling place of supernatural beings (gods, low spirits) known for the role of taboo trees in the biblical Paradise sacred trees of this kind, partly realistic, partly idealized and elevated to the level of a space character — are almost all ancient peoples in the symbolism associated with the tree, and worship it enshrined the remains of the ancient primitive religions in which trees are animate beings time cult of the trees ended, but the echoes of its impact in many of the customs of the time of paganism and later on the ancient veneration of the point trees attached to their trunk icons ("Forest prayer" in Austria) even today can be found nestled among the trees, statues of saints with signs of offerings, votive Christmas tree the most viable and long-lasting plants in a variety of cults considered as a place (the character) stay of the deities, surrounded by reverence, and worship Pliny says that the trees were the first temples the ancients correlated the sacred trees (referring to a whole array of homogeneous trees) with the deities offerings to the gods were presented in the forest (the grove sacred to this God of the trees) distinctive public monuments protected by custom or law at their base, the peasants burned landlords ' securities ? under their canopy were signed important documents, was pronounced civil vows a symbol of brotherhood, harmony between the two countries on the French border of the Canton of Geneva the source of life, food (fruits) the tree can be viewed as male and as female symbol trunk (the stump) usually has phallic value with a shaded tree crown (especially of fruit) perceived maternal symbol the longevity of a number of tree (Californian Redwood, for example, lives up to five thousand years; Australian eucalyptus, African baobab, the old oaks in the forests of Europe live to be a thousand especially pocatalico trees (sacred), bringing the "fruit of life" — the vine, mulberry, peach, Fig, almond, sesame... often depicted accompanied by snakes, birds, stars, fruits, and various animals (lunar)