god-tree

Updated: June 11, 2025

Christ's body was the "bread of life," and his blood was the "wine from the Tree of Life," of which to partake was life eternal. The cross, as in earlier religions, represented completeness of life. The jambu tree, the Buddhist god-tree, is in the shape of a cross.

Eliza Burt Gamble - The God-Idea of the Ancients : or Sex in Religion