Tree of life pendant - sterling silver

Size 19 x 19 mm (incl. pendant eye 25 x 19 mm).

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Tree Symbolism rooted in the religious tradition and in popular culture. Worldwide trees have therefore a special, sacred or ritual meaning. Trees symbolize by their steady growth life from birth to death, from beginning to end, from earth to heaven. With their shape, the branches overhead and underground roots include them in the Norse mythology the whole universe. The ash Yggdrasil is connected to the world of the gods, the world of men and the underworld. Such a tree is called a tree of life.
Other names for Life are world tree or cosmic tree.
In the Christian tradition symbolizes the immortality of Life, the fruit of a tree of life giving life. In popular culture trees were the abode of the gods in mythology changed (transformed) gods easily into a tree or other natural being. The druid in the Celtic culture, think Panomarix from the Asterix and Obelix stories, cut the ingredients for the potion from the sacred oak.