tree worship

Tree worship can fall prey to political exploitation, especially when a national or ethnic group claims an immemorial attachment to a patch of land.

This sort of knee-jerk tree worship makes professional arborists shake their heads.

Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship, with illustrative Legends, Superstitious Usages, &c.; exhibiting its Origin and Development amongst the Eastern and Western Nations of the World, from the earliest to modern times.

Although the festival is a rejoicing at the promising crops in the field, and although it may be traced to the solar myth and Ushá or dawn worship, it is undoubtedly one of the most extensive festivals of tree worship.

Whatever may be the result of the investigation into the Serpent Worship of Ceylon, there is no doubt whatever about the prevalence and importance of Tree Worship in that island.