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And recently I found the same idea coming up in Christianity - Jacob's Ladder - in a Jordan Peterson podcast in which he talks a lot about Shamanism and Yggdrasil:
" And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." - Genesis 28
AMONG ancient Chinese master landscape artists, Fan Kuan (AD 960-1027) stands head and shoulders above most. His best-known painting, “Travelers Among Mountains and Streams,” has long been deemed a seminal masterpiece of the Northern Song School.