:''See also tree of life for other meanings of the term. [[Image:Tree_of_Life%2C_Medieval.jpg|thumb|The tree of life as represented in Kabbalah, containing the Sephirah.]] The Tree of Life, in the Book of Genesis, is a tree whose fruit gives everlasting life, i.e. immortality. After eating of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, the story goes, Adam and Eve are exiled from the Garden of Eden. Fearing Adam and Eve will also eat of the tree of life and become immortal, God sets angels to guard the entrance to the Garden. In the story, the serpent had tempted Eve into partaking of the Fruit of Knowledge by promising they would become as wise and powerful as God. The unstated but implied moral is variously interpreted as God's anger at their decision, God's fear that they will harm the Tree of Life, or God's fear of the serpent's influence. These are of course not contradictory. The tree of life is represented in several examples of sacred geometry, and is central in particular to Kabbalah, the mystic study of the Torah. ==Analysis== The serpent and tree theme, especially as it relates to the development of the earliest man, occurs in the beginning of the Hebrew Bible, a sacred text to Judaism, Christianity, and Muslims. It is also found in the Norse sagas as the ash tree Yggdrasil. Instead of having fruit that gives knowledge, it has magic springwater of knowledge. In opposition to the serpent at the base was an eagle and hawk at the top. The first man and first woman are called Adam and Eve in the bible, but in Norse mythology we have Ask and Embla, not (Freya and Balder (or Odin). In Egyptian mythology, the first couple are Isis and Osiris. There is no tree of life in the Egyptian myth, but the story does involve Seth killing Osiris, putting him in a coffin and throwing it into the Nile. The coffin becomes embedded in the base of a tamarisk tree. The first person to give an overview of world myths and to attempt to provide a unified theory of religions was James Frazer in "The Golden Bough" (1890). By then many people were prepared to accept the book of Genesis as mythology, not history. Since then feminists have re-analysed the stories and interpreted the temptation of Eve as a symbolic way of describing a change in society. A stone age matriarchy religion was replaced by a patriarchy one in the bronze age. Robert Graves suggests this in "The White Goddess" (1947) by literary analysis, and Baring and Cashford use extensive archaeological evidence to present the same case in "The Myth of the Goddess" (1991). A serious theologian Elaine Pagels says much the same in "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" (1988). Ioan P. Couliano gave a semiotic analysis in "The Tree of Gnosis" (1991). To him the serpent was in turn, bad, then good as each phase in the history of religion re-examined its past. To the ancient Gnostics the serpent was offering immortality, which was snatched away by a lying selfish god. To John Milton, Eve was once again a villain. To Lord Byron, she was a hero once more. To some followers of Kabbala, the tree is a concealed version of the Kabalistic tree, and the apples are the nodes of the Sephiroth (Kabbalah). The most all-encompassing theory is one that suggests that all these myths are an attempt to explain why an all-powerful creator god would fail to give man immortality. The Arabian Nights has a story, 'The Tale of Buluqiya', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees. Nearby is a fountain of life guarded by Al-Khidr. Unable to defeat the guard, Buluqiya has to return empty-handed. The 'Epic of Gilgamesh' is a similar quest for immortality. In Mesopotamian mythology Etana searches for a 'plant of birth' to provide him with a son. This has the most solid provenance of antiquity, being found in cylinder seals from Akkad (2390 - 2249 BC). One of the most spectacular archaeological finds of the 1990s was a sacrificial pit at Sanxingdui in Sechuan, China. Dating from about 1,200 BC it contains 3 bronze trees, one of them 4 metres high. At the base was a dragon, and fruit hanging from the lower branches. At the top a strange bird-like creature with claws. Also from Sechuan, from the late Han dynasty (c 25 - 220 AD) is another tree of life. The ceramic base is guarded by a horned beast with wings. The leaves of the tree are coins and people. At the apex is a bird with coins and the sun. In 'Eden in The East' (1998), Stephen Oppenheimer suggests that a tree-worshiping culture arose in Indonesia and was diffused by the so-called "Younger Dryas" event of c 8,000 BC, when the sea-level rose. This culture reached China (Sechuan), then India and the Middle east. Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root. On a much simpler level, the maypole or Christmas tree can be seen as a phallic symbol, worshiped as a way of generating fertility. The Bible condemns the setting up of an "Asherat" (upright pole dedicated to Astarte). Located on the southern end of the island of Bahrain is a solitary tree. A very nice tree, especially considering the otherwise very barren surroundings. This tree is also known as the tree of life. ==See also== *Adam and Eve *Genesis *Garden of Eden *Known Space Larry Niven Science fiction *System *Tree (mythology) *Tree of Knowledge *Tree of life (Kabbalah) Torah events Jewish mysticism System
''Moved from Organism'' *[http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html The Tree of Life]. Its basic goals are: **to provide a uniform and linked framework in which to publish electronically information about the evolutionary history and characteristics of all groups of organisms **to present a modern scientific view of the evolutionary tree that units all organisms on Earth **to aid education about and appreciation of biological diversity **to provide (eventually) a life-wide database and searching system about characteristics of organisms **to provide a means to find taxon-specific information on the Internet, both taxonomic and otherwise *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/GPphylo/ Green Plant Phylogeny, Research Coordination Group, "DEEP GREEN", Understanding the Diversity of Plants]. A five-year effort to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships among all green plants has resulted in the most complete "tree of life" of any group of living things on the planet, including animals. :User:Lunaverse 01:07, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC) I belive the above comment belongs under Evolutionary tree or tolweb.org? == Questions about this page... == I think the comparisons to other tree/serpent/creation-myths is useful to an extent, but NPOV is lost a few times. It's mostly bad when it creates confusion, i.e. seems to be speaking on a topic other than the Tree of Life. For instance, this paragraph below: :The first person to give an overview of world myths and to attempt to provide a unified theory of religions was James Frazer in "The Golden Bough" (1890). By then many people were prepared to accept the book of Genesis as mythology, not history. Since then feminists have re-analysed the stories and interpreted the temptation of Eve as a symbolic way of describing a change in society. This seems to indicate the theme is "world myths" and "unified theory" of these myths. Which it is not. It also leans towards trying to convince the reader of this theory, rather than maintain an informational, neutral tone. Don't get me wrong; I did find it very interesting, but if no one has any objections, in a few days I'd like to summarize quite a few of these paragraphs to keep this article on-theme, more clear, and neutral. Discussion? User:Lunaverse 01:12, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Bahrain Tree of Life == I could be wrong, but Bahrain Tree of Life I believe belongs on the Tree of life with an article of its own. Discussion is welcome, otherwise I'll just do it. :) User:Lunaverse 01:15, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC) == NPOV == I wrote the second part of this article when I was still anonymous. The only part of "The Golden Bough" that is relevant is chapter one. It's just a diversion to ramble on about general theories of unified religion. The "Tree of Gnosis" book is interesting but doesn't explain anything about why the myths existed in the first place. I think that para should be removed altogether. I don't actually believe the feminist theories about patriarchal societies replacing matriarchal ones. Please tone it down. ''A stone age matriarchal religion was replaced by a patriarchal one in the bronze age. Robert Graves suggests this in "The White Goddess" (1947) by literary analysis, and Baring and Cashford use extensive archaeological evidence to present the same case in "The Myth of the Goddess" (1991). A serious theologian Elaine Pagels says much the same in "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" (1988).'' Um. This is not my field or anything, but I'm pretty sure that this theory of a stone age matriarchal religion being replaced by patriarchy is ''not'' widely accepted by scholars these days - but this articles gives the impression that it is... == Finno-Ugaritic? == The reference to Finno-Ugaritic confuses me no end. Finno-Ugric is a language group, and Ugaritic a language, but they're not even in the same linguistic family, so if it's not simply a typo for the former, it's opaque to me what's meant. User:Alai 20:45, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Tree Of Life == um, I think the depiction of the kabbalahistic tree of life is somewhat confusing for this article since it focus' on the biblical tree of life and the Kabbalahistic tree of life already has an article. User:Jaynus 11:59, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
*Tree of Life in scripture: **The best-known Tree of Life appears in the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis of Hebrew Bible. ** A tree of life also appears in the New Testament in the Book of Revelation of John. (It is not immediately obvious nor is it universally accepted that the Book of Genesis account and the Book of Revelation account speak of the same tree of life.) ** A Tree of life (Kabbalah) in the form of ten interconnected nodes is an important part of the Kabbalah. ** The tree of life appears in the Book of Mormon in a revelation to Lehi (Book of Mormon). It is symbolic of salvation and post-mortal existence. * The tree of life (a term used by Charles Darwin) that describes the evolutionary relationships of all life on Earth is described in the evolutionary tree. * Tolweb.org[http://www.tolweb.org/] - The tree of life is an ongoing Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity, produced by biologists from around the world. Each page contains information about one group of organisms, illustrating by the connectedness to the other pages, the evolutionary tree that unites all living things. * There is also a tree of life on the island of Bahrain. * The Tree-of-Life also appears in Larry Niven's Known Space novels.
Feel free to move Darwin's usage of ''tree of life'' back up. I like to put things in chronological order sometimes, and I daresay Darwin got his usage from the Biblical usages. But I do not intend to demean Darwin or give extra credence to the Bible, so if anyone reverts I won't protest. --User:Ed Poor :I believe that through the middle ages the tree of life ''arbor vitae'' had mystical and symbolic connections with the cross. Jung worked a lot in this area, and I suppose at some point when I'm not working on so many different things at once I could pull down my references and see what I can find. For now, since my knowledge is on shaky ground, I'll confine my remarks to the talk page. User:Eclecticology 09:41 Aug 2, 2002 (PDT)
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:''See also tree of life for other meanings of the term. [[Image:Tree_of_Life%2C_Medieval.jpg|thumb|The tree of life as represented in Kabbalah, containing the Sephirah.]] The Tree of Life, in the Book of Genesis, is a tree whose fruit gives everlasting life, i.e. immortality. After eating of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, the story goes, Adam and Eve are exiled from the Garden of Eden. Fearing Adam and Eve will also eat of the tree of life and become immortal, God sets angels to guard the entrance to the Garden. In the story, the serpent had tempted Eve into partaking of the Fruit of Knowledge by promising they would become as wise and powerful as God. The unstated but implied moral is variously interpreted as God's anger at their decision, God's fear that they will harm the Tree of Life, or God's fear of the serpent's influence. These are of course not contradictory. The tree of life is represented in several examples of sacred geometry, and is central in particular to Kabbalah, the mystic study of the Torah. ==Analysis== The serpent and tree theme, especially as it relates to the development of the earliest man, occurs in the beginning of the Hebrew Bible, a sacred text to Judaism, Christianity, and Muslims. It is also found in the Norse sagas as the ash tree Yggdrasil. Instead of having fruit that gives knowledge, it has magic springwater of knowledge. In opposition to the serpent at the base was an eagle and hawk at the top. The first man and first woman are called Adam and Eve in the bible, but in Norse mythology we have Ask and Embla, not (Freya and Balder (or Odin). In Egyptian mythology, the first couple are Isis and Osiris. There is no tree of life in the Egyptian myth, but the story does involve Seth killing Osiris, putting him in a coffin and throwing it into the Nile. The coffin becomes embedded in the base of a tamarisk tree. The first person to give an overview of world myths and to attempt to provide a unified theory of religions was James Frazer in "The Golden Bough" (1890). By then many people were prepared to accept the book of Genesis as mythology, not history. Since then feminists have re-analysed the stories and interpreted the temptation of Eve as a symbolic way of describing a change in society. A stone age matriarchy religion was replaced by a patriarchy one in the bronze age. Robert Graves suggests this in "The White Goddess" (1947) by literary analysis, and Baring and Cashford use extensive archaeological evidence to present the same case in "The Myth of the Goddess" (1991). A serious theologian Elaine Pagels says much the same in "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" (1988). Ioan P. Couliano gave a semiotic analysis in "The Tree of Gnosis" (1991). To him the serpent was in turn, bad, then good as each phase in the history of religion re-examined its past. To the ancient Gnostics the serpent was offering immortality, which was snatched away by a lying selfish god. To John Milton, Eve was once again a villain. To Lord Byron, she was a hero once more. To some followers of Kabbala, the tree is a concealed version of the Kabalistic tree, and the apples are the nodes of the Sephiroth (Kabbalah). The most all-encompassing theory is one that suggests that all these myths are an attempt to explain why an all-powerful creator god would fail to give man immortality. The Arabian Nights has a story, 'The Tale of Buluqiya', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees. Nearby is a fountain of life guarded by Al-Khidr. Unable to defeat the guard, Buluqiya has to return empty-handed. The 'Epic of Gilgamesh' is a similar quest for immortality. In Mesopotamian mythology Etana searches for a 'plant of birth' to provide him with a son. This has the most solid provenance of antiquity, being found in cylinder seals from Akkad (2390 - 2249 BC). One of the most spectacular archaeological finds of the 1990s was a sacrificial pit at Sanxingdui in Sechuan, China. Dating from about 1,200 BC it contains 3 bronze trees, one of them 4 metres high. At the base was a dragon, and fruit hanging from the lower branches. At the top a strange bird-like creature with claws. Also from Sechuan, from the late Han dynasty (c 25 - 220 AD) is another tree of life. The ceramic base is guarded by a horned beast with wings. The leaves of the tree are coins and people. At the apex is a bird with coins and the sun. In 'Eden in The East' (1998), Stephen Oppenheimer suggests that a tree-worshiping culture arose in Indonesia and was diffused by the so-called "Younger Dryas" event of c 8,000 BC, when the sea-level rose. This culture reached China (Sechuan), then India and the Middle east. Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root. On a much simpler level, the maypole or Christmas tree can be seen as a phallic symbol, worshiped as a way of generating fertility. The Bible condemns the setting up of an "Asherat" (upright pole dedicated to Astarte). Located on the southern end of the island of Bahrain is a solitary tree. A very nice tree, especially considering the otherwise very barren surroundings. This tree is also known as the tree of life. ==See also== *Adam and Eve *Genesis *Garden of Eden *Known Space Larry Niven Science fiction *System *Tree (mythology) *Tree of Knowledge *Tree of life (Kabbalah) Torah events Jewish mysticism System
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''Moved from Organism'' *[http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html The Tree of Life]. Its basic goals are: **to provide a uniform and linked framework in which to publish electronically information about the evolutionary history and characteristics of all groups of organisms **to present a modern scientific view of the evolutionary tree that units all organisms on Earth **to aid education about and appreciation of biological diversity **to provide (eventually) a life-wide database and searching system about characteristics of organisms **to provide a means to find taxon-specific information on the Internet, both taxonomic and otherwise *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/GPphylo/ Green Plant Phylogeny, Research Coordination Group, "DEEP GREEN", Understanding the Diversity of Plants]. A five-year effort to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships among all green plants has resulted in the most complete "tree of life" of any group of living things on the planet, including animals. :User:Lunaverse 01:07, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC) I belive the above comment belongs under Evolutionary tree or tolweb.org? == Questions about this page... == I think the comparisons to other tree/serpent/creation-myths is useful to an extent, but NPOV is lost a few times. It's mostly bad when it creates confusion, i.e. seems to be speaking on a topic other than the Tree of Life. For instance, this paragraph below: :The first person to give an overview of world myths and to attempt to provide a unified theory of religions was James Frazer in "The Golden Bough" (1890). By then many people were prepared to accept the book of Genesis as mythology, not history. Since then feminists have re-analysed the stories and interpreted the temptation of Eve as a symbolic way of describing a change in society. This seems to indicate the theme is "world myths" and "unified theory" of these myths. Which it is not. It also leans towards trying to convince the reader of this theory, rather than maintain an informational, neutral tone. Don't get me wrong; I did find it very interesting, but if no one has any objections, in a few days I'd like to summarize quite a few of these paragraphs to keep this article on-theme, more clear, and neutral. Discussion? User:Lunaverse 01:12, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Bahrain Tree of Life == I could be wrong, but Bahrain Tree of Life I believe belongs on the Tree of life with an article of its own. Discussion is welcome, otherwise I'll just do it. :) User:Lunaverse 01:15, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC) == NPOV == I wrote the second part of this article when I was still anonymous. The only part of "The Golden Bough" that is relevant is chapter one. It's just a diversion to ramble on about general theories of unified religion. The "Tree of Gnosis" book is interesting but doesn't explain anything about why the myths existed in the first place. I think that para should be removed altogether. I don't actually believe the feminist theories about patriarchal societies replacing matriarchal ones. Please tone it down. ''A stone age matriarchal religion was replaced by a patriarchal one in the bronze age. Robert Graves suggests this in "The White Goddess" (1947) by literary analysis, and Baring and Cashford use extensive archaeological evidence to present the same case in "The Myth of the Goddess" (1991). A serious theologian Elaine Pagels says much the same in "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" (1988).'' Um. This is not my field or anything, but I'm pretty sure that this theory of a stone age matriarchal religion being replaced by patriarchy is ''not'' widely accepted by scholars these days - but this articles gives the impression that it is... == Finno-Ugaritic? == The reference to Finno-Ugaritic confuses me no end. Finno-Ugric is a language group, and Ugaritic a language, but they're not even in the same linguistic family, so if it's not simply a typo for the former, it's opaque to me what's meant. User:Alai 20:45, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Tree Of Life == um, I think the depiction of the kabbalahistic tree of life is somewhat confusing for this article since it focus' on the biblical tree of life and the Kabbalahistic tree of life already has an article. User:Jaynus 11:59, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Tree of life
*Tree of Life in scripture: **The best-known Tree of Life appears in the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis of Hebrew Bible. ** A tree of life also appears in the New Testament in the Book of Revelation of John. (It is not immediately obvious nor is it universally accepted that the Book of Genesis account and the Book of Revelation account speak of the same tree of life.) ** A Tree of life (Kabbalah) in the form of ten interconnected nodes is an important part of the Kabbalah. ** The tree of life appears in the Book of Mormon in a revelation to Lehi (Book of Mormon). It is symbolic of salvation and post-mortal existence. * The tree of life (a term used by Charles Darwin) that describes the evolutionary relationships of all life on Earth is described in the evolutionary tree. * Tolweb.org[http://www.tolweb.org/] - The tree of life is an ongoing Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity, produced by biologists from around the world. Each page contains information about one group of organisms, illustrating by the connectedness to the other pages, the evolutionary tree that unites all living things. * There is also a tree of life on the island of Bahrain. * The Tree-of-Life also appears in Larry Niven's Known Space novels.
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Feel free to move Darwin's usage of ''tree of life'' back up. I like to put things in chronological order sometimes, and I daresay Darwin got his usage from the Biblical usages. But I do not intend to demean Darwin or give extra credence to the Bible, so if anyone reverts I won't protest. --User:Ed Poor :I believe that through the middle ages the tree of life ''arbor vitae'' had mystical and symbolic connections with the cross. Jung worked a lot in this area, and I suppose at some point when I'm not working on so many different things at once I could pull down my references and see what I can find. For now, since my knowledge is on shaky ground, I'll confine my remarks to the talk page. User:Eclecticology 09:41 Aug 2, 2002 (PDT)
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