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* {{PP|85|33}} "He sat in the worl tree"
Note that the word ''{{Ix|silence|sylents}}'' is used in the plural, as if a "sylent" is the opposite of a sound.  
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There is a World Tree in many mythologies, including the Maya (who named the Milky Way after it) and the Norse. In Norse/Germanic myth, the tree Yggdrasil connected the underworld and Asgard; in its branches, an eagle (sometimes identified with Odin) looked down on the world.  
  
 
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Latest revision as of 23:15, 28 July 2013

  • (85:33) "He sat in the worl tree"

There is a World Tree in many mythologies, including the Maya (who named the Milky Way after it) and the Norse. In Norse/Germanic myth, the tree Yggdrasil connected the underworld and Asgard; in its branches, an eagle (sometimes identified with Odin) looked down on the world.