Sacred groves or sacred woods are groves of trees that have special religious importance within a particular culture. Sacred groves feature in various cultures throughout the world.
Ancient monoliths in Mawphlang sacred grove, India
Olive trees can attain impressive age, as here at Gethsemane
Romuva sanctuary in Prussia: a depiction based on the 16th-century account of Simon Grunau
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria
Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe. Because there are no extant native records of their beliefs, evidence about their religion is gleaned from archaeology, Greco-Roman accounts, and literature from the early Christian period. Celtic paganism was one of a larger group of polytheistic Indo-European religions of Iron Age Europe.
Model reconstructing the Pillar of the Boatmen in the Musée de Cluny, Paris. After 14 AD.
The Strettweg Cult Wagon, c. 600 BC
One of a pair of British "divining spoons"
Image of an antlered figure on the Gundestrup cauldron, interpreted by many archaeologists as being cognate to the god Cernunnos.