What is the name of the holy Mayan tree?
Platonia
Ceiba
Araucaria
Jacaranda
The tree plays an important part in the mythologies of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. The Ceiba, or ya’axché, symbolised to the Maya civilization an axis mundi which connects the planes of the Underworld (Xibalba) and the sky with that of the terrestrial realm. This concept of a central world tree is often depicted as a Ceiba trunk.
reach: rather globalreligionsSouth Americatrees
Answers by country
Platonia
Ceiba
Araucaria
Jacaranda
answers
Australia
22
the United States
68
Poland
1118
India
20
Germany
213
Austria
59
Switzerland
24
the United Kingdom
29
Greece
12