What is the origin of the Holy Young Tree myth?
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It comes from the symbol of the Tree of Life.  The Album, Young Tree, from which this cut comes, has been referred to as a reggae retelling of the story of the Tree of Life.\n\nThat in turn comes to Rastafari from Jewish mysticism.\n\nThe Tree of life is a diagram of the 10 attributes of God and the 22 paths connecting them.  It is used as a basis for meditation.
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It's kind of like fairy tales.  You can believe they happened if you want.  It's just Greek Mythology used to be religion to people.  So in a couple thousand years some of the religions that are popular today might be considered mythology.
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May I just correct you,you have to say 'mea veritas'.\nAs for the tradition it derives from the Germanic tribes who worshiped nature (believed in spirits) as well as a tree.\nI hope this helped.
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According to legend, the dogwood tree used to grow tall and straight and strong, and it was used as the cross of crucifiction.  Ever since then, it grows small and crooked, with flowers that represent the four wounds.\n\nNo basis in fact, this is just the story I've heard.
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How it All Got Started\nLong before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter. Just as people today decorate their homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, ancient peoples hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. In many countries it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness. \n\nIn the Northern hemisphere, the shortest day and longest night of the year falls on December 21 or December 22 and is called the winter solstice. Many ancient people believed that the sun was a god and that winter came every year because the sun god had become sick and weak. They celebrated the solstice because it meant that at last the sun god would begin to get well. Evergreen boughs reminded them of all the green plants that would grow again when the sun god was strong and summer would return. \n\nThe ancient Egyptians worshipped a god called Ra, who had the head of a hawk and wore the sun as a blazing disk in his crown. At the solstice, when Ra began to recover from the illness, the Egyptians filled their homes with green palm rushes which symbolized for them the triumph of life over death. \n\nEarly Romans marked the solstice with a feast called the Saturnalia in honor of Saturn, the god of agriculture. The Romans knew that the solstice meant that soon farms and orchards would be green and fruitful. To mark the occasion, they decorated their homes and temples with evergreen boughs.   \n \n   \n In Northern Europe the mysterious Druids, the priests of the ancient Celts, also decorated their temples with evergreen boughs as a symbol of everlasting life. The fierce Vikings in Scandinavia thought that evergreens were the special plant of the sun god, Balder. \n\nGermany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles. \n\nMost 19th-century Americans found Christmas trees an oddity. The first record of one being on display was in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania, although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747. But, as late as the 1840s Christmas trees were seen as pagan symbols and not accepted by most Americans. \n\nIt is not surprising that, like many other festive Christmas customs, the tree was adopted so late in America. To the New England Puritans, Christmas was sacred. The pilgrims's second governor, William Bradford, wrote that he tried hard to stamp out "pagan mockery" of the observance, penalizing any frivolity. The influential Oliver Cromwell preached against "the heathen traditions" of Christmas carols, decorated trees, and any joyful expression that desecrated "that sacred event." In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts enacted a law making any observance of December 25 (other than a church service) a penal offense; people were fined for hanging decorations. That stern solemnity continued until the 19th century, when the influx of German and Irish immigrants undermined the Puritan legacy. \n\nIn 1846, the popular royals, Queen Victoria and her German Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree. Unlike the previous royal family, Victoria was very popular with her subjects, and what was d
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I think it were the Celts or the old Germans who first put things on their tree. But why? I don't know.
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It's a Pagan tradition.\nThe original one is to touch a tree.\nIt's like... wishing upon a tree.\nRemember that most pagan religions are based on the powers of nature and the earth as a Goddess.\nTrees are magic.
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It is from Rudyard Kipling, around 1910.\n\n"God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine-- Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!"
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Tree: God created the plants & trees.  The seeds happened later to propogate the foliage.
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There`s this legend in the country called Nicaragua and people claim that if you go to this tree on the day of the dead, the devil will show himself 2 you, or u will either see his face on the bark of the tree. My mom has told me this legend just recently.
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I know about it, when asked by my sisters and brothers about putting the tree up, I direct them to that scripture. Their reply, I don't worship the tree. If this is true, then\n1- why do they get so upset.\n 2-they would have no problem not putting it up.\nIt is a false God, and we  are not to have false gods in oour homes.
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After the formation of the Christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were\nbanned and the nature festivals supplanted by Christian ones. The Christians were pragmatic,\nhowever, and Pope Gregory, who sent St Augustine to England in AD 597, acknowledged that it was\nsimpler to graft the Christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. So,\nEaster, for example, was celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring\nequinox, which is where it remains today.\nIn the same way, the crosses on the hot cross buns that we eat on Good Friday were originally the\nancient astrological signs for the Earth, and were eaten to absorb the power and fertility of Mother\nEarth. Hot cross buns were still thought to retain their magical qualities until the early decades of the\nnineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. For this reason, hot cross buns\nwere hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. The old ways did\nnot die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually\ntransferred their allegiance from the Earth Mother, or Mother Goddess, to the Virgin Mary and the\nfemale saints.
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Horus\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm\n\n\nEdit:\nAll of the research I have done claims that Horus was born of a virgin...so the myth goes anyways.
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The superstition is an old one and has many possible explanations, none sure. It may be of pagan origin, deriving from the practice of rapping on trees to ask protection from friendly spirits who were believed to reside inside. Or it could be a Christian superstition similar to touching wooden crucifixes or rosary beads. One theory even holds that the practice comes from games like hide-and-seek in which players who succeed in touching wood are safe from capture. A last, farfetched possibility is that the superstition is linked to a verse in the sixth chapter of Galatians: "God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." You will be forgiven any vainglorious boast, according to this story, if you quickly recall the wooden cross Christ carried.
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The Book of Acts wrote that Jesus was killed by hanging him on a tree. By Jewish tradition,  a man being hang on a tree is cursed. So, there could be something there why Christians are hiding why he was hung on the cross. However, your question could be true because it is not  just the cross that was made holy. The shroud that was used to cover his body is one, the blood that oozed out when he was pierced, his wounds are called sacred, the Grail which up to now is not really clear which one, In fact, had they found the spear, maybe it will also be holy, It is not impossible to have the nooze be called holy if that will be the case and so was the tree. I am still waiting for the whip that was used to flogg him and that could be a holy whip. I wanted to say to you to let them be however my heart tells me to tell the Christians let it be known that those kind of adorations are simply idolatrous however you look at it. Of course, whatever they do they will always have a good reason.
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It is a myth....a bedtime story.  The Earth was formed over millions of years.
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This Legend although mentioned in specific detail through many books of the old and new testaments of the King James version of the Bible, predates it, back to the dawn of time in all major philosophies and cultures of the world. \n\nThe Legend states the 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' is the unborn one in the poetic sense, 'He' being preordained by his birthright too be a 'Maker of Things' endowed with gifts of 'second sight' 'predicting the future' 'healer' 'lucky' and a 'devil may care attitude' being referred to as the 'Divine One' or the 'Chosen One' who has a 'special purpose in life' for the 'Lord of Hosts' who is also cursed by the good & evil forces battling for his eternal soul.