Dragon Blood Tree

The Socotra Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia, is home to the Dragon Blood tree. The Dragon Blood tree is unusual f...

Hyperion California

Hyperion is a Coast Redwood, and has the distinction of being the tallest living organism ever measured. It is 379.3 feet tall. That’s 38 ...

Photo Gallery of Japanese Zen Gardens

Monotonous rocks instead of colorful flowers; dry, gray sand as a substitute for glass-clear water; moss supplementing cherished flowerbed...

THE BLACK DRAGON AND THE RED DRAGON – Turkish Folktale

The following very elaborate narrative elaborates on the workings of supernatural beings ranging from dragons to jinn (called here peris, ...

Island of Socotra

Republic of Yemen Socotra has been described as one of the most alien-looking place on Earth, and it’s not hard to see why. It is very isol...

The rat that's the size of a cat: BBC team discovers 40 new species in 'lost world'

No fear: The rat is not afraid of humans, which could make it vulnerable A bizarre jungle spider camouflaged as lichen Rats as big as cats, ...

The Battle of Ragnarok

Ragnarok, sometimes called the Twilight of the Gods, is the final cataclysm that will destroy this world and the gods. After three terrible ...

The World Tree Myth

According to the Norse poem The Lay of Grimnir, “Of all trees, Yggdrasil is the best.” Yggdrasil is a huge ash tree that stands at the cente...

The Maya I

The Maya were master pyramid builders, but their magnificent cities were buried by the jungle until the late 1800s and early 1900s. This is ...

HARE

Symbolic animal. The hare, in Ireland, was believed to be a WITCH in disguise, perhaps because the animal was mythically connected to that w...

TREE ALPHABET

(Beth-Luis-Nuin) Cosmological concept. The Celts arranged the most familiar and valuable TREES of their lands into a series that had mystica...

OLLOUDIOS (OLLOUIDIAS, OLLUDIO)

Continental Celtic and British god. This relatively obscure Gaulish god may have been a local divinity (GENIUS LOCI) worshiped in a TREE, fo...

TREE AND FOREST SPIRITS

Ot sain op Local sprite, house guardian by Maria Lombide Ezpeleta   The very feel of the forest imparts a sense of wonder and hidden power...

ROOTS OF THE PARADISE GARDEN TRADITION

Alhambra: Granada´s hidden gardens Islamic gardening drew on traditions going back to the very early civilization of ancient Mesopotamia. In...

THE HIGH FOREST

By Jeff Quick The High Forest is dense with nothingness. Unprepared wanderers can travel for days without finding a friendly face, or even...