Day equals night – night equals day. As the duration of the sun’s radiance in the sky shortens, we will descend again in the circle of the year… Traditionally, on September 20 (Saturday), in the […]
Tag: religion
Flowing with Eglė: Ash, Blood, Passover, Sacrifice
As aforementioned, this spring and summer, we are combining the method of Writing (with) plants with the Flowing with Eglė – Project, where we create a new eco-myth. In this old myth, different human characters […]
Sacred forests and the role of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in the protection of nature
Jep Stockmans, a Belgian researcher, did research in Ethiopia and was fascinated by the “sacred forests”. He wonders why nature is protected in these sacred places, but not elsewhere in the city of Addis Abeba. He further argues that there is a distinction between good and evil trees in Orthodox Chritianity.
Sacred trees in science fiction
Some weeks ago, I watched the movie “Dune (part 1)”, the latest adaption of the science fiction book by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. One of the scenes that struck me was the introduction of […]
Ordaining trees – Thai Buddhist Environmental activism
A couple of years ago I lived for a year in a campus in Thailand, joined a couple of times my local friends to the forests and learned about some old customs and folklore about […]
Many ethnic Estonians believe in “souls of trees”
This week I got to know the work of religious study scholars from Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, after I talked with a scholar from Lithuania, who has been rooting in Belgium for a long […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 