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* Among pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, the concept of " world trees " is a prevalent motif in Mesoamerican mythical cosmologies and iconography.

The Temple of the Cross Complex at Palenque contains one of the most studied examples of the world tree in architectural motifs of all Mayan ruins.

World trees embodied the four cardinal directions, which represented also the fourfold nature of a central world tree, a symbolic axis mundi connecting the planes of the Underworld and the sky with that of the terrestrial world.