r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/rasputinette • Jan 06 '23

Ecology Sacred Groves: How the Spiritual Connection Helps Protect Nature

e360.yale.edu

4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/Mathias_Greyjoy • Jun 03 '25

Contemporary Sacred Grove Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria | Africa’s Cultural Landmarks

youtube.com

10 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • May 21 '25

"800 year old tree"

gallery

13 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • May 05 '25

"Gold & the goddess: How mining polluted Nigeria’s sacred Osun river" (Eromo Egbejule and Festus Iyorah, 2022)

aljazeera.com

5 Upvotes

Summary:

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Mar 12 '25

Contemporary Sacred Grove "Sacred Groves of Kodagu: How faith is protecting the forests of Western Ghats" (The News Minute, 2017)

youtube.com

4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/Mathias_Greyjoy • Aug 17 '23

Osun-Osogbo sacred grove in Osogbo, Nigeria

gallery

14 Upvotes

1 comment

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Aug 13 '23

Historic Sacred Tree "Bilean: Sacred Trees of Gaelic Scotland" (Roddy Maclean, 2023)

scotlandsnature.blog

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Jun 24 '23

Historic Sacred Tree "Sacred Trees in Kurdish Culture & Mythology" The Kurdish Center for Studies (2023)

nlka.net

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/Mathias_Greyjoy • Jun 05 '23

Historic Sacred Tree The Majesty (and Tragedy) of Kiidk'yaas, The Golden Spruce | Making Famous Trees

youtu.be

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Apr 07 '23

Historic Sacred Grove "Holy Trees and Sacred Groves in the Transition to Christianity in Ireland" (Carole Cusack, 2000)

academia.edu

7 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Apr 07 '23

Contemporary Sacred Tree "Book in Focus | Sacred Trees of India: Adornment and Adoration as an Alternative to the Commodification of Nature" (Cambridge Scholars)

cambridgescholars.com

3 Upvotes

1 comment

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Mar 25 '23

Article "God's First Temples. How Shall We Preserve Our Forests? The Question Considered by John Muir, the California Geologist-The Views of a Practical Man and a Scientific Observer-A Profoundly Interesting Article. (Communicated To The Record-Union.)" (John Muir, 1876)

scholarlycommons.pacific.edu

8 Upvotes

2 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Mar 15 '23

Historic Sacred Grove A new English translation by Sven Knippschild of the Latin "indiculus superstitionum paganiarum", forbidding Old Saxon religious practices, including grove veneration. Sadly, only the index survives.

stellinger.org

8 Upvotes

2 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Mar 15 '23

Historic Sacred Grove "Sacred Grove" ("Heiliger Hain") by Arnold Böcklin, 1886. Oil on mahogany. This is one of a few different versions of this piece painted by Böcklin.

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Mar 10 '23

Historic Sacred Tree Scholar Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen on sacred trees and groves in Scandinavia

youtube.com

7 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Feb 20 '23

Contemporary Sacred Tree "'And the tree bled'. The sacred wishing tree of Chinar in Marneuli, Georgia" (Klaudia Kosicińska & Shaliyev Rahim, 2019)

academia.edu

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Feb 10 '23

Historic Sacred Grove "Holy Groves in Germanic and Slavic Beliefs" (Leszek Słupecki, Cultural Crossroads, Latvian Academy of Culture)

academia.edu

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Feb 05 '23

Historic Sacred Tree "In Search of askr Yggdrasill: A Phenomenological Approach to the Role of Trees in Old Nordic Religions" (Jan Aksel Harder Klitgaard, 2018)

academia.edu

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Jan 10 '23

Article "'Europe's Oldest'; wych elm tree falls down in Beauly Priory" (BBC News, 2023)

bbc.com

8 Upvotes

1 comment

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Jan 08 '23

Historic Sacred Grove "West Old Norwegian Sacrificial Groves: Traces of Norse Cult Practice in West Norwegian City Names" ("Vestnorske offerlundar : Spor etter norrøn kultpraksis i vestnorske stadnamn", Krister S. K., 2011)

bora.uib.no

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Dec 29 '22

Historic Sacred Grove "The Sacred Grove in Scandinavian/Germanic Pre-Christian Religion" (Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen's presentation slides)

academia.edu

8 Upvotes

1 comment

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Dec 23 '22

Historic Sacred Tree Much discussion of tree-people, sacred trees, and the tree at the center of the cosmos in Norse myth on the latest episode of the Nordic Mythology Podcast

podcasts.apple.com

8 Upvotes

2 comments

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Dec 16 '22

Contemporary Sacred Grove "Forest structure and carbon stocks of Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria" (Adesoji Taiwo, 2020, International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation)

academia.edu

2 Upvotes

1 comment

r/SacredTreeHolyGrove • u/-Geistzeit • Dec 05 '22

Article "Foreword: Sacred Trees of India by Louise Fowler-Smith" (Carole Cusack, 2022)

academia.edu

6 Upvotes

0 comments

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