The tree of life is a fundamental archetype in many of the world's mythological, religious, and philosophical traditions. It is closely related to the concept of the sacred tree. The tree of the knowl
An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil as described in the Icelandic Prose Edda by Oluf Olufsen Bagge
Confronted animals, here ibexes, flank a tree of life, a very common motif in the art of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean
The Urartian tree of life
Goddess Nut as a sycamore tree assisting a soul in the afterlife.
In Judaism and Christianity, the tree of life is first described in chapter 2, verse 9 of the Book of Genesis as being "in the midst of the Garden of Eden" with the tree of the knowledge of good and e
Tree of life
…religious, and philosophical traditions. It is closely related to the concept of the sacred tree. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life which appear in Genesis' Garden of Eden as part of the Jewish cosmology of creation, and the tree of knowledge connecting to heaven and the underworld…
Stained glass window in St Mary the Virgin parish church, Iffley, Oxfordshire, made in 1995
The tree of life, a print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations in the possession of the Rev. Philip De Vere at St. George's Court, Kidderminster, England
Mary Assumption parish church in Pühret (Neustift i.M., Upper Austria): Altar of Virgin Mary: Image of Madonna with Child (1900).
Gilded royal doors carved to represent the tree of life (old wooden church in Chotyniec, Poland)