Article: A good idea just keeps getting bigger. (profile of Jan Tjerk Mossel, founder of the World Tree Foundation) (Earthkeepers: profiles of people who make a difference for trees and forests)
American Forests;  January 1, 1992 ;     537 words ......He has founded a new organization, the World Tree Foundation, that is similar to AFA's...served as the original offices of the World Tree Foundation (WTF). Two years in the making...the Canary Islands, indicating that the World Tree Foundation is already far-flung in its...

Article: Siberian Mythology
Myths and Legends of the World;      700+ words ......Siberian myths in the same way that the World Tree Yggdrasill linked realms in Norse* mythology...travel between worlds by climbing the World Tree or by flying, and they communicated...hero who followed a golden bird up the World Tree. The bird changed into many shapes...

Article: Giant Sloth ''Snook'' From PBS KIDS(R) Series ''It's a Big Big World'' to Make Special Appearance at Licensing 2006 International.
Business Wire;  June 19, 2006 ;     307 words ......characters and environments. Set in a lush rainforest, the World Tree is home to the animals and is the show's metaphor for the...but when viewed closer, the real complexity of life in the World Tree begins to reveal itself. Teeming with tree houses and habitats...

Article: Mimir
Myths and Legends of the World;      157 words ......the well of knowledge located at the base of the world tree Yggdrasill. During the war between the Aesir and another group...who kept it alive in a shrine near the base of Yggdrasill. The well of knowledge sprang from the spot where...

Article: fig
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      84 words ......pear-shaped fruit with sweet dark flesh and many small seeds, eaten fresh or dried. 2. (also fig tree ) the deciduous Old World tree or shrub ( Ficus carica ) of the mulberry family that bears this fruit. fig 2 inf. • n. (in phrase full fig ) smart...

Article: Trees in Mythology
Myths and Legends of the World;      700+ words ......about trees. In myths and legends from around the world, trees appear as ladders between worlds, as sources...and as the physical forms of supernatural beings. World Trees With its roots buried deep in the earth, its...tree serves as a symbolic, living link between this world and those of supernatural ...

Article: Pupils branch out for World Tree Day.
Daventry Express/Daventry Review (Daventry, England);  December 11, 2007 ;     128 words ...SCHOOLCHILDREN from Daventry district dressed trees as part of a worldwide celebration in Daventry Country Park last Friday. Pupils from Southbrook Infants, Welton primary and Newnham primary schools decorated the trees with pictures and messages to brightly adorn the canopy of an oak tree in the

Article: Yggdrasill
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      56 words ..., in Norse mythology, the great tree of the world. Its branches and roots extended through all the universe—the heavens, the earth, and the underworld. At its top sat an eagle, at its bottom twined a serpent, and between them ran a squirrel breeding discord. It was prophesied that at the doom of

Article: Odin
Myths and Legends of the World;      700+ words ......well, which seeped from among the roots of the World Tree Yggdrasill, contained great wisdom. Another myth says that...his magical spear, called Gungnir, and hung from Yggdrasill for nine days and nights in a living death. This...

Article: Ragnarok
Myths and Legends of the World;      297 words ......world will finally sink beneath the sea and vanish. Ragnarok will not be the end of everything, however. The World Tree Yggdrasill will survive, and two humans — Lif and Lifthrasir — and some animals will be sheltered among its...

Article: Sacrifice
Myths and Legends of the World;      700+ words ......of creation. In Norse* mythology, Odin, the chief of the gods, made a kind of self-sacrifice by hanging on the World Tree Yggdrasill for nine days to gain magical knowledge. For this reason, the Norse sometimes sacrificed war captives to Odin...

Article: Seers
Myths and Legends of the World;      685 words ......included human and animal sacrifice. In Norse* mythology, the seer Mimir guarded a sacred spring at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasill. Odin* gained magical knowledge by drinking from the spring, but he had to pay for it by giving one of his eyes...

Article: Serpents and Snakes
Myths and Legends of the World;      700+ words ......world. Another Norse monster, the Nidhogg or dread biter, was an evil serpent coiled around one of the roots of Yggdrasill, the World Tree. It was forever trying to destroy the tree by biting or squeezing it. * See Names and Places at the end of...

Article: Howard Katkov Leads Purchase of Red Mountain Resort.
Business Wire;  June 3, 2004 ;     487 words ......today that the Canadian ski area known for its best-in-the-world tree skiing and plentiful powder has been sold to a private investment...descend 2,900 vertical feet (884 meters) through best-in-the-world tree skiing and wide open glades of untouched powder. More information...