Meaning of symbols Trees of Life and Death
The honor which the Celts paid tribute to the trees, which grow either solitary or in groups, is demonstrated very clearly by the number of shrines dedicated to them - and that's why the Catholics burned thousands of oaks that are designed as a place of perdition, as to the standing , the pagans, performed their rites, and even take them to church, they would burn the kids alive .... Christian love - and their association with the megaliths erected in the center of many places of worship.
The tree was probably a symbol of union between the earthly world and the supreme, reflected in its roots deep in the soil and its branches towering to the sky.
The relationship between the shaft and the hunt is beautifully illustrated in a scene from the Gundestrup cauldron, a vessel made of silver found in a bog in Jutland, and decorated with the engraving of a procession of men carrying the sacred tree Cernunnos, the god of deer.
A group linked to the more sinister and bloody trees is described by Tacitus: druids, says the historian, cherishing sacred woods as a place dve offer human sacrifices to the gods
