#yew-tree

[witeksphotosofnature]

Yew trees with fruits.

#yew-tree #cis #drzewo #arbre #owoce #arbore #Baum #yew #tree #seeds #fruits #nasiona

[mothprincess]

Sylvia Plath, from “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” Ariel

#quotes #poetry #sylvia plath #the moon and the yew tree #ariel

[octobersociety]

Muckross Abbey, Ireland

#yew tree #ireland #autumn

[silvaris]

Tree in Muckross Friary - Ireland by Kai Mechel

#medieval mood #abbey #ancient tree #gothic architecture #yew tree #my upload #silvaris #ireland #irish #st patrick's day #castle #stone #building #medieval #ancient #ruins

[gennsoup]

I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering Blue and mystical over the face of the stars.

Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree

#Sylvia Plath #The Moon and the Yew Tree #Ariel #falling #flowering #clouds #blue #sky #stars #star quotes #night sky #American poetry #poetry #poetry quotes #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes #books #words #text

[lost-harts]

March 2023

#cottagecore #dark cottagecore #forestcore #naturecore #rangercore #mosscore #moss #trees #yew #ivy #plants #squirrel #nature photography #spring

[pain-is-too-tired]

Michael,panicking cause he can't find Will:Has anyone seen my brother???

Michael:Oh gods- Will!!

Lee,also panicking: That mother's adrenaline is kicking in-

Michael:WILL!!

Lee,still in panic:I can see every equation-

Michael, talking to one of the other head counselors:Excuse me, ma'am, have you seen my brother?? He's about this tall, clearly Bi but we hadn't had the talk-

Lee, looking in one of the storage rooms and falling over everything :Will ARE YOU IN THERE???

#mine #pain rambles #incorrect quotes #pjo incorrect quotes #pjo lee #lee fletcher #pjo michael #micheal yew #pjo will #will solace #william andrew solace #apollo cabin #cabin 7 #cabin seven #sunfam #what I'm calling them now #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo memes #pjo fandom #pjo #idk how to put the source thing i seem on here sometimes #but i feel like we've all heard this one #a day at the park by brandon rogers if anyone's curious #also. he was in a tree asleep #no one knows how he got up there #lee nearly had a heart attack #Percy just looks up and see Lee and Michael booking it across camp screaming Will's name #plot twist that's only reason he knows Will's name in tlo/j

[vox-anglosphere]

Beatrix Potter's 'Yew Tree Farm' still thrives in England's Lake District

#Yew Tree Farm #Coniston #Cumbria #Beatrix Potter #cattle #stone walls #English Lake District #English countryside #UK

[yoga-onion]

Legends and myths about trees

Celtic beliefs in trees (26)

I for Idho (Yew) - December 21st Winter Solstice 

“Death of a king in his waning 6 months - The Celtic Tree Calendar (Ref), the end of the beginning, the beginning of the end ...”         

Colour: dark green; Star: Saturn; Gemstone: olivine; Gender: female; Metal: lead, Element: earth; Patron: Banba, Hecate; Symbols: resurrection, death + rebirth, eternity, path to meet ancestors + land of the soul

Today is the winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, the day in the northern hemisphere when the sun is at its lowest altitude in the south and day is shortest and night longest during the year (reversed in the southern hemisphere).

Yew is an evergreen tree with dark green leaves and red berries. The yew is a robust tree with a thick girth and an extremely long life. It is probably the longest lived of all trees.

As soon as the downward reaching branches reach the ground, the tree begins to grow strongly, as if it has been reborn as a new tree. The eldest living yew tree is in Europe is said to be the Fortingall Yew, in Perthshire, Scotland, and it has been estimated between 3000 to 9000 years old.

In addition, the yew's hollowed-out heartwood, especially when wet, looks like a flayed animal, and when cut it appears to bleed, so the yew is increasingly said to be a sacred tree. Yew sticks were believed to be able to divine the future, and yew sticks were used as 'writing pillars' to engrave the Ogham script, as they could be preserved almost forever.

As the druids believed the natural law of reincarnation, where the soul becomes reborn as another person, the yew was seen as a protector of the soul during the journey to the Otherworld. Some believe that the road to the Otherworld is shaded by rows of yew trees. Furthermore, the yew is said to stop any obstacles caused by evil spirits from the other world.

As a sacred 'tree of immortality', believed to protect and purify the dead, yews are often planted in cemeteries, many of which are as old as the church or much older.

ケルト人の樹木の信仰 (26)

IはIdho (ｲﾁｲ) - 12月21日 冬至

“衰えゆく半年の王の死 〜 ケルトの木の暦（参照）、始まりの終わり、終わりの始まり…”

色: 深緑; 星: 土星; 宝石: オリビン; 性: 女性; 金属: 鉛; 要素: 土; 守護神: バンバ、ヘカテ; シンボル: 復活; 死＋再生、永遠、先祖に出会える道＋魂の国

今日は冬至、北半球では太陽の南中高度が最も低く、一年の間で昼が最も短く夜が最も長くなる日(南半球では逆転する)。

イチイは濃い緑色の葉を持ち、赤い果実を実らせる常緑樹。イチイはたくましい樹木で胴回りが太くなり、ものすごく長生きをする。おそらくすべての木の中で最も長生きする木といえるだろう。下方に伸びた枝が地面に着くと、新しい木に生まれ変わったかのように、力強く生育を始める。ヨーロッパで最も古いイチイの木は、スコットランドのパースシャーにある『フォーティンゴールのイチイ』と言われており、樹齢は3000年から9000年と推定されている。

また、幹の中が空洞になったイチイの心材は、とくに湿っていると、一見皮を剥がれた動物のようで、切れば血を流すようにも見えるため、ますますイチイは聖なる木だといわれるようになった。

イチイの杖は未来を占うことができるとされ、またイチイの棒はほぼ永遠に保存できるため、オガム文字を刻印する「文字棒」として使用された。ドルイドは、魂が別の人間に生まれ変わるという輪廻転生の自然法則を信じていたので、イチイはあの世への旅の間、魂を守ってくれるものと考えられていた。冥界に至る道はイチイ並木の木陰になっているという説もある。さらに、イチイは異界の悪霊が起こすいかなる障害をも食い止めるという。

神聖なる「不死の木」として、死者を守り浄化すると信じられたイチイは墓地によく植えられ、その多くは樹齢が教会と同じか、またはそれよりずっと古い。

#trees #tree legend #tree myth #folklore #mythology #legend #celtic mythology #yew #nature #art #winter solstice #celtic calendar

[seabeck]

I think I’m funny

#it’s a yew tree

[exocynraku]

little trees

#gooseberry #yew tail #apple blossom #snail shell #minty #williw #icicle #cloudy #sniff #snowflake #warrior cats #wc #family tree #ray art

[outofangband]

Nan Elmoth, first attempt at a board for @foxindarkness I'm not super happy with this design, I need to do both more environmental world building and make a second board. But I hope this is ok for a first attempt! Obviously it is...difficult for find real photography of trees and flora that can grow in that darkness

Nan Elmoth or the Valley of Stars was a deep forest East of Doriath and on the Eastern banks of the river Celon, a tributary to Aros which was itself a tributary to Sirion. There was apparently a small lake or pool called Gladuial. This was likely a spring fed by ground water or a vestigial pool that remained fed by precipitation throughout the year.

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Art is from Hans von Volkmann in 1906

#the silmarillion #nan elmoth #silmedit #silmedits #edits #lots of yew trees because they block the sun and because of the lore

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, from the moon and the yew tree

#typography #typographyedit #sylvia plath #the moon and the yew tree

[freddie-77-ao3]

Michael: Why the heck are there so many different types of shampoo? Like, no, I don’t wanna smell like fake things, like raspberries or oak tree. Silena: Mikey, WHAT? Silena: I have so many things to say right now, i don't know where to begin

#pjo hoo toa #pjo #riordanverse #pjo series #pjo fandom #silena beauregard #michael yew #michael knows oak trees are real #he genuinely doesn't believe in raspberries though

[mothprincess]

Sylvia Plath, from “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” Ariel

#quotes #poetry #sylvia plath #the moon and the yew tree #ariel

[banefolk]

Next in the christmas botanicals series is the deadly poisonous yew tree (taxus spp.) with its shiny evergreen foliage and bright red berries. Yew’s association with christmas is documented back to 1605 in Germany where a bough of yew (or other evergreen) was brought indoors and decorated with candy, nuts, and fruit. Queen Charlotte was German and brought her regional custom of decorating yew boughs to England creating a sensation at court. In 1800 she used a full tree instead of just a bough. That tree was a yew, making the earliest christmas tree in England a yew tree. Over 50 years before Prince Albert’s “first christmas tree”.

Yews have been venerated by many peoples for thousands of years because the trees live for thousands of years and are technically immortal. Yew fossil records date to 200 million years ago. It’s kind of a big deal.

Yew is heavily associated with death and resurrection. The trees are in a perpetual state of simultaneous decay and new growth. It is the real life tree version of the Dionysus-Osiris-Esus-Jesus resurrection myth. Yew is the deified world tree and greenmantle ruling the dark half of the year. It is the literal Holly King.

Yew’s use to decorate for the winter solstice very likely dates back to prechristian times. Poisons are often considered some of the most powerful protection herbs in traditional folk beliefs and it’s no coincidence many botanicals used to make christmas wreaths and garlands are poisonous. Our animistic ancestors across the northern hemisphere were using them to protect their homes and the people within from winter’s ghosts and ghouls. Yew has long been believed to protect from ghosts and the restless dead, hence its use in graveyards ancient and modern. Today evergreen garlands are used for decoration but their origin was magical protection.

#bane folk #yew #yew tree #taxus baccata #poisonous plants #poison path #Christmas plants