Potterne Field, Nr Devizes, Wiltshire.
Reported 4th August 2020
Is that the world tree, Yggdrasil, I see represented before me? Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is centre to the cosmos and considered very holy by Norse Mythology. Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense mythical tree that plays a central role in Norse cosmology, where it connects the Nine Worlds. However, there are only 5 worlds represented here. So this might not represent Yggdrasil.
It might even represent the early Mesopotamian Tree of Life. In Babylonian mythology, the Tree of Life was a magical tree that grew in the center of paradise. The Apsu, or primordial waters, flowed from its roots. It is the prototype of the tree described in Genesis: the biblical Tree of Paradise evolved directly from this ancient symbol; it is the symbol from which the Egyptian, Islamic, and Kabbalistic Tree of Life concepts originated.
