"Trees hold a particular role in Germanic paganism and Germanic mythology, both as individuals (sacred trees) and in groups (sacred groves). The central role of trees in Germanic religion is noted in the earliest written reports about the Germanic peoples, with the Roman historian Tacitus stating that Germanic cult practices took place exclusively in groves rather than temples. Scholars consider that reverence for and rites performed at individual trees are derived from the mythological role of the world tree, Yggdrasil; onomastic and some historical evidence also connects individual deities to both groves and individual trees. After Christianization, trees continue to play a significant role in the folk beliefs of the Germanic peoples."
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"When asked by Eric Nordern in Kubrick's interview with Playboy if 2001: A Space Odyssey was a religious film, Kubrick elaborated: I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthropomorphic image of God."
The sacred grove; the sacred hotel room at the end of the universe.
Then He asked: 'To what can we compare the kingdom of god? It is like the mustard plant - for its seed is of the smallest kind, and yet, when it is planted in a prepared field, grows to become the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.'
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And again from Wikipedia:
"When asked by Eric Nordern in Kubrick's interview with Playboy if 2001: A Space Odyssey was a religious film, Kubrick elaborated: I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthropomorphic image of God."
The sacred grove; the sacred hotel room at the end of the universe.
Is that too much of a stretch?
Then He asked: 'To what can we compare the kingdom of god? It is like the mustard plant - for its seed is of the smallest kind, and yet, when it is planted in a prepared field, grows to become the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.'
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