The concept of world trees is a prevalent motif in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cosmologies and iconography.

Depictions of world trees, both in their directional and central aspects, are found in the art and mythological traditions of cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec, and others, dating to at least the Mid / Late Formative periods of Mesoamerican chronology.

Directional world trees are also associated with the four Yearbearers in Mesoamerican calendars, and the directional colors and deities.

Mongols, Scythians, early Egyptians and various Mesoamerican chiefs could take most of their household, including servants and concubines, with them to the next world.

Mesoamerican architecture in Mexico is best known for its public, ceremonial and urban monumental buildings and structures, several of which are the largest monuments in the world.

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar dates the this creation of the world of human beings to 11 August 3114 BC ( in the most commonly accepted correlation ) according to the proleptic Gregorian calendar, or Monday, 6 September 3114 BC according to the proleptic Julian calendar.

Headrick identifies the tree which sprouts from the headdress as the Mesoamerican world tree.

While this kind of cement roof is common in modern times, it was unique in the Mesoamerican world.

Descended from the Aztec version of the Mesoamerican ballgame, the game is one of the oldest continuously-played sports in the world, and is also notable for the fact that it is the oldest known game utilizing a rubber ball.

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

* Depictions of world trees, both in their directional and central aspects, are found in the art and mythological traditions of cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec, and others, dating to at least the Mid / Late Formative periods of Mesoamerican chronology.

* Directional world trees are also associated with the four Yearbearers in Mesoamerican calendars, and the directional colors and deities.

Some similarities between the Mesoamerican and the Andean cultures suggest that the two regions became a part of a wider world system, as a result of trade, by the 1st millennium BCE.

The inner Gulf of Honduras is lined by the Belize Barrier Reef which forms the southern part of the 900 km long Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second-largest coral reef system in the world.

The collections of Oceanic and Mesoamerican works, as well as handwoven Turkish rugs, are among the finest in the world.

Roatán lies on the southern edge of the Mesoamerican Reef System, the second largest barrier reef in the world.

The Mesoamerican region's largest pyramid by volume – indeed, the largest in the world by volume – is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla.

Mainstream Mesoamerican researchers identify the central image as a Mesoamerican world tree, connecting the sky above and the water or underworld below.

The tree figures an important part in the mythologies of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.

Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations used the morning glory species Ipomoea alba to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree and also the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls.

Maya codices ( singular codex ) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, written in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark cloth, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or amate ( Ficus glabrata ).

This proposal was amplified by Miguel Covarrubias in his 1957 work Indian Art of Mexico and Central America where he famously drew a family tree showing 19 later Mesoamerican rain deities as descendents of a " jaguar masked " deity portrayed on a votive axe.

The ancient Mesoamerican civilizations used the Ipomoea alba morning glory to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree and the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls.

Balché, a traditional Mesoamerican alcoholic beverage similar to mead, was made from fermented honey and the bark of the leguminous Balché tree ( Lonchocarpus violaceus ), hence its name.

Domestication of a Mesoamerican cultivated fruit tree, Spondias purpurea.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

* Ai Toyon, the Yakut god of light, usually depicted as an eagle perched atop the " world tree "

The oldest recovered boat in the world is the Pesse canoe ; it is a dugout or hollowed tree trunk from a Pinus sylvestris.

Many mythologies involve a " world center ", which is often the sacred place of creation ; this center often takes the form of a tree, mountain, or other upright object, which serves as an axis mundi or axle of the world.

In this sense, it is dualistic when one perceives a tree as a thing separate from everything surrounding it, or when one perceives a " self " that is distinct from the rest of the world.

# Sparse trees and parkland – Natural forests in which the tree canopy cover is between 10 – 30 %, such as in the steppe regions of the world.

# Sparse trees and parkland – Natural forests in which the tree canopy cover is between 10 – 30 %, such as in the savannah regions of the world.

Due to the problematic and enigmatic nature of these attestations, scholars have produced various theories about the nature of the god, including his apparent relation to rams, that he may be a personification of or connected to the world tree Yggdrasil, and potential Indo-European cognates.

Above the spring, the serpent Níðhöggr gnaws on one of the roots of the world tree, Yggdrasil.

" In Grímnismál, Hel is listed as living beneath one of three roots growing from the world tree Yggdrasil.

* The history and origins of world religions depicted as a navigable tree

The Sampo has been interpreted in many ways: a world pillar or world tree, a compass or astrolabe, a chest containing a treasure, a Byzantine coin die, a decorated Vendel period shield, a Christian relic, etc.

That is, a statement such as ( i. e. the assignment of the result of an expression to a variable ) clearly calls for the expression to be evaluated and the result placed in, but what actually is in is irrelevant until there is a need for its value via a reference to in some later expression whose evaluation could itself be deferred, though eventually the rapidly growing tree of dependencies would be pruned to produce some symbol rather than another for the outside world to see.

The Norns spin the threads of Destiny | fate at the foot of Yggdrasil, the tree of the world.

In relation to the world tree Yggdrasill, Jafnhárr ( Odin ) tells Gylfi that Jötunheimr is located under the second root, where Ginnungagap ( Yawning Void ) once was:

Many Heathen groups adopt variants of Norse mythology as a basis to their beliefs, conceiving of the Earth as being situated on a great world tree called Yggdrasil.

In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr ( Old Norse, generally considered to mean " drill-tooth " or " bore-tooth ") is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the unnamed eagle, perched atop Yggdrasil, and the wyrm Níðhöggr, who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree.

It is considered the oldest human-planted tree ( with a continuous historical record ) in the world.

The Sampo has been interpreted in many ways: a world pillar or world tree, a compass or astrolabe, a chest containing a treasure, a Byzantine coin die, a decorated Vendel period shield, a Christian relic, etc.

In February 1998, a local company took cuttings from the Major Oak and began cultivating clones of the famous tree with the intention of sending saplings to be planted in major cities around the world.

If someone thinks the proposition, " There is a tree in the yard ," then that proposition accurately pictures the world if and only if there is a tree in the yard.