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Talking tree

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Talking tree
Iskandar (Alexander the Great) and the Talking Tree, Folio from the Great Mongol Shahnameh. Freer Gallery of Art
GroupingLegendary creature
Similar entitiesDryad
CountryWorldwide
RegionWorldwide
Tree on the Island of Waqwaq. Golconda, early 17th-century. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin

Talking trees are a form of sapient trees in mythologies and stories.

Ben Bryne initially[when?] said that in Greek mythology, all the trees in the Dodona (northwestern Greece, Epirus) grove (the forest beside the sanctuary of Zeus) became endowed with the gift of prophecy, and the oaks not only spoke and delivered oracles while in a living state, but when built into the ship Argo the wood spoke and warned of approaching calamities.[1]

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Examples

  • In the book Shahnameh (Book of Kings) by Firdawsi (d. 1020), Alexander the Great visited a talking tree.[2]
  • The rustling of the leaves on an oak tree has been regarded as the voice of Zeus.[3]
  • The Greek talking elm: Philostratus spoke about two philosophers arguing beneath an elm tree in Ethiopia which spoke up to add to the conversation.
  • The Indian Tree of the Sun and the Moon told the future. Two parts of the tree trunk spoke depending on the time of day; in the daytime the tree spoke as a male and at night it spoke as a female. Marco Polo is said to have visited this tree.[4]
  • The weeping date palm tree: Muhammad, when delivering his sermons, used to stand by or lean on a date palm tree. When a pulpit was built elsewhere and Muhammad started to give his sermon from the pulpit, the tree began to cry like a child. Muhammad then descended from his pulpit and consoled the tree by embracing it and stroking it. He said, "It was crying for (missing) what it used to hear of religious knowledge given near to it." This incident is recorded in the authentic Islamic Hadith traditions and is said to have been witnessed by everyone present at the congregation.[5]
  • Oracular trees are sometimes attributed with the ability to speak to individuals, especially those gifted in divination. In particular, Druids were said to be able to consult oak trees for divinatory purposes, as were the Streghe with Rowan trees.
  • In Medieval literature, in the Arthurian legend, Merlin is turned into a tree by Viviane.[6]
  • In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy story Inferno, the protagonists (Dante and Virgil) speak with suicides who have been turned into trees in Hell.
  • In English folklore, willows were said to stalk humans.[7]
  • The Yaqui have a legend of a talking tree. The tree told of the Christian God and the priests who would soon arrive to teach the people new beliefs and new ways.[8][9]
  • Artist Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) is quoted as saying "I also heard the voices of the trees ... whose passions I uncovered. I wanted to talk with them ... and put my finger on the secret of their majesty."[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cultus Arborum 1890
  2. ^ Image:Iskandar/Alexander and the talking tree. Circa 1330-1340. The Smithsonian`s Museums of Asian Art Archived 2014-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Plants of Life, Plants of Death". Frederick J. Simoons. 1998
  4. ^ The History of Alexander's Battles: Historia de Preliis, the J1 Version. Leo (Archipresbyter) 1992 ISSN 0316-0874 ISBN 9780888442840 Page 169 of 200 pages
  5. ^ Summarized-Sahih-Al-Bukhari. page 16 of 1097
  6. ^ Viviane et Merlin 
  7. ^ Ashton, J. W.; Briggs, K. M. (April 1968). "The Fairies in Tradition and Literature". The Journal of American Folklore. 81 (320): 164. doi:10.2307/537668. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 537668.
  8. ^ Yaqui leader Anselmo Valencia story of the talking tree
  9. ^ Yaqui Myths and Legends. University of Arizona Press, 1959 - Social Science - 180 pages. Pages 18, 26, 27
  10. ^ Théodore Rousseau description at Encyclopedia of World Biography

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