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Art - Explore personal symbolism (Mountains (German (The Edelweiss Flower:…

- - - - Ercinee
      - Hercinia - Culture
    - - Mystical creatures
    - - the symbol, which can represent eternity in East Asian culture and Buddhism, but was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi party, was sown to celebrate wartime leader Adolf Hitler’s birthday in the 1930s.
      - Larch trees
        
        weird flowers...
        
        Ugly
    - - Waldeinsamkeit
        
        Riddle of the german forests
        
        Feeling of exploring the woods
      - Hansel and Gretel
      - In his main work, Masse und Macht (Crowds and Power)(1960), the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti considers this metaphor critically: “The crowd symbol of the German was the army. But the army was more than the army: it was a marching forest. In no other modern country has the feeling for the forest remained so alive as in Germany. The rigidity and the parallelity of standing trees, their density and number, fills the German heart with a deep and mysterious joy.”
        
        Forest symbolise the turgidity and strength in numbers
        
        Use in Nazi germany - Swastika trees
      - Romanticism was the cultural epoch that charged the forest with national significance in society and the arts. In consequence of the wars of liberation against Napoleon (1813 – 1815)
        
        Romanticism that affected perception of forests
      - in West Germany, it dominated the genre of sentimental regional films (“Heimatfilm”) in the form of consoling nature and the reassurance of an idyllic world.
        
        Hearken back to an Idyllic world
      - Albrecht Lehmann, the German national self-image is still nourished by the forest: “The Germans are the people of the forest par excellence”, he maintained in 2001 in his essay Waldbewusstsein und Waldwissen in Deutschland (i.e. Forest Consciousness and Forest Lore).
- - - - Tengrism - Worship the blue sky - No god - The sky is worthy of Worship - Mongolia referred to as "The Eternal Blue Sky"
- - - - Sacred peach tree - surrounded by Dragon and Phoenix - immortality - Taoist - Grows every 3000 years and grants person immortality
    - - Tree is the axis - seed sewed in space and the earth is the tree
      - Believed by Japanese and Indian also
- - - - Eldelweiss