Serpents, birds, and solar imagery are interwoven with the plant. The trunk of this plant is conventionally portrayed as ascended from the skull of an aquatic god called the “Water Lily Monster” or “Quadripartite God” by interpreters. “Most Classic and Postclassic impressions of the Maya world tree portray a plant whose basal stem is rooted in a watery substrate that the Maya identified as the underworld of the gods,” notes McDonald. The ancient Mayans symbolized their mystical sciences in a Tree of Life, depicated as a vertical axis upon which all life is balanced and sustained, upon which. (Maize, of course, isn’t a tree it’s a grass, so “world trees” may not necessarily be trees, or woody plants.) Indeed, the regional archeological record includes many “distinctive plants that have yet to be identified, much less explored in terms of their mythic and/or symbolic value.”Įarlier interpretations of the Maya world tree have pointed to the kapok tree ( Ceiba pentandra) and corn (a.k.a. Nonetheless, there are surviving “stucco reliefs, stone stelae, ceramic paintings, and codices” in lowland Maya communities dating from the sixth to thirteenth centuries. In Mesoamerica, attempts to interpret the imagery of the local world tree have “greater challenges than analogous iconic trees of Europe and Asia.” This is because Catholic clergy accompanying the Spanish conquers tried to destroy “all vestiges of Amerindian beliefs and religious practices.” As a result of this violent iconoclasm, there are only limited examples of “this once pervasive symbol in Mexico and Central America.” And, with what is left in the case of the Maya, “use of abstract figures and symbolic forms can be so extreme as to render many images unintelligible to even experienced specialists.” Sometimes it’s more of a question of interpretation.
Sometimes the origin species for these symbols are obvious. The idea of elevating part of the local flora to cosmic significance, continues McDonald, seems “to spring spontaneously to life in the human imagination, as similar vegetative forms appear recurrently in the written and artistic records of distant and isolated cultures throughout the world.” via Wikimedia Commons These symbolic trees are sometimes identifiable as actual species. Sometimes it’s more of question of interpretation. But there is no more curse in the Holy City of heaven: a reversal of the curse of Genesis 3:16-19.
It fulfills the tree of life in Paradise and the other tree of life, the Cross of the Savior, the tree of obedience (1 Peter 2:24), a tree of the curse (Galatians 3:13). Sometimes the origin species for these symbols are obvious. Here the 'Tree of Life' is a symbol of Christ Himself, giving immortality.
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