Axis mundi

For the Maya, the trees constituted the ambient living environment, the material from which they fashioned homes and tools, the source of many foods, medicines, dyes, and vital commodities such as chocolate and paper.

World Tree This is a physical print. Methods used: Aquatint and Hard Ground.

The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, columna cerului, center of the world). "When we go to the center, we leave behind time and place and separateness. We come to our Source and are in the Being from which we ever flow and in which we ever stand and apart from which we are not." ~ M. Basil Pennington,

Arbre de vie / Tree of Life

April, 2012 Alberto J. Almarza For more info: albertotem.blogspot.com AA12

Both these Sami drums show Axis Mundi interestingly. I have also studied Native American drum symbols and Siberian ones and Axis Mundi is represented as well in them on occasion. This is the THIN time of year when we are exceptionally close to the spirit world. Samhain or Halloween, Day of the Dead in Mexico, is a time when portals open and we can learn from the experience of openness and shedding fear. Our dead our living are close. Shamans have access to this state Axis Mundi through…

Rithika Merchant is a visual artist from Bombay (Mumbai), India. Her work explores both comparative mythology as well as science and speculative fiction, featuring creatures and symbolism that are part of her personal visual vocabulary. She creates bodies of work that visually link to our collective past as well as imagine possible new worlds which we may come to inhabit.

Tree of life

The axis mundi is an imaginary vertical axis or linkage as a center pole, running from the sky through the ground, uniting heaven, earth and underworld.

Alberto Villoldo - The Four Winds on Instagram: "🌳✨ Embark on a journey into the mystical realms of Shamanism with a glimpse into the captivating concept of the World Tree! 🌍🪶🍃⁣ In various Indigenous cultures, the World Tree stands as a sacred symbol, connecting the realms of the upper world, the middle world, and the lower world. It's believed to be the axis mundi – the center of the cosmos – serving as a bridge between different dimensions. Shamans, the spiritual guides and healers…