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In Eden in the East ( 1998 ), Stephen Oppenheimer suggests that a tree-worshipping culture arose in Indonesia and was diffused by the so-called " Younger Dryas " event of c. 8000 BCE, when the sea level rose.

This culture reached China ( Szechuan ), then India and the Middle East.

Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root.