Sacred Oak
With the Druids the oak was a most holy tree, and so also with the ancient Greeks, if we can believe Pherecydes and his cosmogony, who tells us of the sacred oak “in whose luxuriant branches a serpent (i.e., wisdom) dwelleth, and cannot be dislodged”. Every nation had its own sacred trees, pre‐eminently the Hindus (TG).
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Shortly: With the Druids the oak was a most holy tree, and so also with the ancient Greeks, if we can believe...