Multiple traditions

Tree of Life

Across many traditions, the Tree of Life symbolizes the connection between heaven, earth, and the underworld and the continuity of life; it appears as the Norse Yggdrasil connecting the nine realms and as the Kabbalistic Etz Chaim mapping the ten sefirot.

TraditionMultiple traditions

SymbolWorld-tree connecting heaven, earth, and underworld

DomainsGrounding · Healing · Protection

Provenance URLhttps://americanart.si.edu/artwork/tree-life-8673

Citation

Cook, Roger. "The Tree of Life: Image for the Cosmos." Thames & Hudson, 1974.

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