Sacred Grove

6 books featuring this symbol

The sacred grove designates living trees as a temple precinct. It mediates vows, taboos, and assemblies within a protected canopy.

Oedipus at Colonus cover

Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

406-405 BCE

Greek

Heimskringla cover

Heimskringla

Snorri Sturluson

1220-1230 CE

Germanic, Norse

Gesta Danorum cover

Gesta Danorum

Saxo Grammaticus

1185-1222 CE

Germanic, Norse

Ynglinga saga cover

Ynglinga saga

Snorri Sturluson

1220-1230 CE

Germanic, Norse

Fudoki cover

Fudoki

Anonymous

713-733 CE

East Asian, Japanese

Hymns cover

Hymns

Callimachus

300-200 BCE

Greek