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What are the three stages of tree worship?
What are the three stages of tree worship?
- Animate, inanimate, and cultural
- Physical, spiritual, and cultural
- Physical, spiritual, and symbolic (correct)
- Animate, inanimate, and symbolic
Why were taboos in place regarding trees?
Why were taboos in place regarding trees?
- To prevent deforestation
- To promote tree worship
- To avoid causing offense to trees (correct)
- To avoid causing harm to the environment
What do trees represent in the veneration of trees?
What do trees represent in the veneration of trees?
- All of the above
- Fertility for women
- Natural processes (correct)
- Symbolic and abstract thinking
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Study Notes
- Sir James George Frazer extensively documented the significance of trees in world religion in The Golden Bough.
- The veneration of trees united different regions across the world.
- There are three loose stages of tree worship: physical body, separate spirit, and symbolic embodiment.
- Early societies regarded trees as animate beings with spirit and body.
- Taboos were in place to avoid causing offense to trees.
- The second stage sees the spirit existing independently of the physical tree.
- The third stage sees trees and their spirits as symbols of natural processes.
- Ceremonial offerings were made to trees for rain and sunshine.
- Trees were thought to give fertility to women.
- The veneration of trees represents a society's first steps toward symbolic and abstract thinking.
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