The Tree at the Center of the World: Yggdrasil
The last posts have been about symbols and stories of climbing into the heavens… This is a theme found in all cultures…
In Norse Mythology, Yggdrasil is the immense ash tree that stands at the center of the world.
Mircea Eliade has written extensively about the “Axis-Mundi“, the sacred center of the psychological world…
It is not that much of a stretch to suggest that this concept is closely equivalent to Jung’s concept of the Self…
Every Microcosm, every inhabited region, has a centre; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all.
Mircea Eliade
Symbolism of the Centre in Images and Symbols; Princeton, 1991. p.39