Skip to main content

Givnology Wellness Arts
May you find yourself in the world…and may you enjoy the company!

This information is from National Geographic and only for educational purposes.

Please excuse my scanning, I am not very computer wise.

Child Giving Ginco.

Tradition holds that this tree, which stands in the courtyard of the Zoshigaya Kishimojin Temple in Tokyo, brings fertility to worshippers. Thought the goddess Kishimojin is a guardian deity of children, her backstory paints a darker picture. She fed her own offspring-possibly thousands-by devouring the children of others. To tech her a lesson, Buddha hid one of her children in an alms bowl. A distraught Kishimojin appealed to him, and he admonished her for suffering she had caused. Suitably chastened, she vowed henceforth to protect all children. 

Attachments

Images (1)
  • treeginko
Last edited by yoko
Original Post

Replies sorted oldest to newest

Boab Tree.

The squat, bulbous boab has provided water, food, medicine, shelter, even burial crypts for Aboriginals, some of who regard the tree as sacred. The boab in Western Australia is known as the Derby prison tree-erroneously, according to |University of Tasmania historian Kristyn Harman and University of Adelaide architectural anthropologist Elizabeth Grant. Though the tree was reputed to be a holding cell or staging area for Aboriginal prisoners en route to Derby. Harman and Grant debunk the story as "a deliberate move to present it as a dark tourism site displaying colonial triumphs over Aboriginal people." 

Attachments

Images (1)
  • treeboab
Last edited by yoko

Montezuma Cypress.

Sixth-grade children from the Colegio Montolinia de Antequera line up in front of a Montezuma cypress known as el Arbol del Tule. The trunk, 119 feet in circumference and roughly 38 feet in diameter, supports a crown the size of almost 2 tennis courts. In the 1990's the Mexican governement re-routed the Pan-American Highway an approved a grant to dig a well for the tree to mitigate damage caused by car exhaust and a falling water table.

Here are two pictures of the tree; the tree is so wide I could not get a wide enough picture on my scanner, so you need to imagine the two pictures together forming one.

Attachments

Images (2)
  • treemontezuma2
  • treemontezuma
Last edited by yoko

Quaking Aspen.

Though it sounds like the heavy in a grade B science fiction flick, the Pando clone, made up of 47,000 tree trunks covering 106 acres and weighing some 13 million pounds, is real. It's a single organism, a quaking aspen that began life as a single seed-possibly tens of thousands of years ago-and spread by sending up shoots from an expanding root system. (is Latin for "I spread.") Each trunk is genetically identical and no more than 150 years old, but the root system may be the oldest living organism on the planet.

Attachments

Images (1)
  • treeqaking
Last edited by yoko

Add Reply

Post
Content may be subject to copyright. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
"..for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.."

If you wish to contact us or join, Please go to our E-Learning site and fill out the contact us form!

Follow Givnology on Twitter

books
Click to see our books


Submit Site - Web Site Promotion Submit Your Site To The Web's Top 50 Search Engines for Free! Search Engine Submission and Internet Marketing Search Engine Submission & Optimization
Put Site Submit link here Put Site Submit link here LAUNCH FREE and FAST Search Engine SubmissionLiving Well Blogs - Blog Catalog Blog Directory

Google
WWW Givnology

×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×