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[Alexandr Korol]

“Sumerian-Akkadian mythology. The Tree of Life is represented by a series of knots and intersecting lines. Apparently, an important religious symbol, often associated with eagle-headed gods and priests or the king. Assyriologists have not been able to reach an agreement on the meaning of this symbol. The name ‘Tree of Life’ was assigned to this symbol by modern scholars; it was not used by Assyrian sources. In essence, there is no textual evidence related to this symbol. The Tree of Life was originally mentioned in the work of Simo Parpola ‘The Assyrian Tree of Life: Tracing the Origins of Jewish Monotheism and Greek Philosophy,’ but later articles were published both criticizing his opinion and developing the topic.” This is fine, this is all people’s assumptions.

“Ancient Egyptian mythology. In Egyptian mythology and in the Heliopolitan Ennead the first pair are Isis and Osiris (in addition to Shu and Tefnut, and also Geb and Nut). It was believed that they originated from the acacia tree Iusaset, which the Egyptians considered the Tree of Life, calling it ‘the tree in which life and death are united.’ In the myth it is said that subsequently Set killed Osiris, placed him in a coffin, and threw it into the Nile, and the coffin became one with the roots of the tamarisk tree. The Egyptian sacred tree, the sycamore, ‘stands at the threshold of life and death, linking the two worlds.’”

There, you see, how many meanings there are. That is, on the one hand, it is knowledge, on the other hand, it is the matrix. Or rather, the core of this matrix, and all this, it is written, that it unites all the worlds, all about the same thing. “Persian mythology. In Persian mythology (before Islam) the Tree of Life is described as a huge sacred tree bearing all the seeds upon itself. The devil (Ahriman) created a frog, which was supposed to climb the tree and destroy it, hoping to prevent all other trees on earth from growing. In response, God (Ahura Mazda) created two fish to watch the frog and guard the tree. Since Ahriman is responsible for all evil, including death, and Ahura Mazda — for all good, the concept of the World Tree in Persian mythology is very close to the concept of the Tree of Life.” And I begin to think, perhaps it was not for nothing that I only in the fourth volume began to comprehend all these worlds. And I first simply had to understand their number, and began to sort out that there are only the first three worlds — the sky, the earth, the underworld.