World Tree
24 books featuring this symbol
The world tree structures the cosmos through roots, trunk, and branches. It sustains beings, hosts ordeals, and mediates travel between realms.
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
1220 CE
Germanic, Norse
Book of Invasions
Anonymous
1000-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Kumulipo
Anonymous
1700-1800 CE
Pacific, Hawaiian
Hawaiian Antiquities
David Malo
1830-1850 CE
Pacific, Hawaiian
Polynesian Mythology
George Grey
1855 CE
Pacific, Polynesian
Kalevipoeg
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1853-1862 CE
Slavic, Estonian
Brahma Purana
Anonymous
300-1000 CE
Indian, Hindu
Vayu Purana
Anonymous
300-800 CE
Indian, Hindu
Annals of Cuauhtitlan
Anonymous
1570 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Books of Chilam Balam
Anonymous
1600-1800 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Dresden Codex
Anonymous
1200-1250 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas
Anonymous
1539-1541 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Ancient Tahiti
Teuira Henry
1928 CE
Pacific, Tahitian
Nga Mahi a nga Tupuna
George Grey
1854 CE
Pacific, Maori
The Lore of the Whare-Wānanga
H. T. Whatahoro Jury
1865-1915 CE
Pacific, Maori
Latvian Dainas
Anonymous
1894-1915 CE
Slavic, Latvian
The Dindshenchas
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
Anonymous
1450-1519 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Codex Vaticanus B
Anonymous
1400-1600 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Codex Vindobonensis
Anonymous
1200-1521 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Madrid Codex
Anonymous
1250-1521 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Paris Codex
Anonymous
1200-1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Lithuanian Mythological Songs
Anonymous
1800-2000 CE
Slavic, Lithuanian
Later Shamanic Epics
Various
1200-2000 CE
East Asian, Korean