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A little off topic but a good one, runic knowledge and on Yggdrasil...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq8ananNBFE&t=35s

Interesting to see these concepts coming from Norse mythology.

The same concept is found in Chinese trigrams - base line, mid line and top line.

Here's a good overview of the 3 realms - and the Tree of Life in the Woven Energy podcast episode 2:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/9404101/e ... -shamanism

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9JtQN_GoVI



Jacob's ladder - William Blake:

" 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

- Angles/ Squirrels. Same same.

Travelers amongst mountains and streams - Fan Kuan - is interesting to analyse using the same concepts as the world tree.

https://www.shine.cn/archive/sunday/now ... aily.shtml

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.