🐕 Salty Sea Dog Interpretation...
Trees and life....
A sea dog might put it this way:
The roots remember where we came from.
The branches explore where we might go.
The trunk is the work of today.
Dig too deep and you forget the sky.
Reach too high and you forget the soil.
A healthy tree does both.
Whether the Tree of Life is a divine revelation, an archetype, a universal metaphor, or simply a very good observation of nature depends on one's philosophy.
But it is hard to miss the reason it keeps returning.
Every human being has felt the same thing at some point:
Feet in the dirt. Eyes on the horizon.
A bit hippy but it does good if you know how to grow food....get your hands dirty and evaluate the weather....maybe?
Heart somewhere between Earth and Heaven. 🌳✨🐕
The tree becomes a symbol of connection.
Roots draw nourishment from below.
Branches reach toward light above.
The trunk unites both.
That symbolism appears in:
Yggdrasil of the Norse
The Tree of Life in Genesis
The Kabbalistic Tree
Mesoamerican world trees
Celtic sacred trees
Many Indigenous traditions....
That includes European indigenous....
White is a colour and we had many different white tribes before the game of fucking thrones evolved and Roman divide and conquer techniques...... they didn't invent it though
Not because they necessarily copied one another, but because all humans experience the same reality:
We stand on the ground.
We look at the sky.
We wonder what connects the two.
Layman salt dog mind muse