2000 year old yew

[Danavan]

What a tree! & what did you feel next to it?

 

Life is put in the context that should be in the presance of such life forces:thumbup1:

 

Fantastic post of a magnificant tree:thumbup:

[treewizard]

thats an awesome tree, nice pics!!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The plaque is interesting. This whole religion, birth of christianity/catholism stuff really interests me, though more because I am interested in the old origional religion of the ancient britons and europeans, paganism.

 

The early christians built thier churches directly onto the sites of the pagans church, the old Yews, this in itself was an insult and gave them easy accses to pagan worshipers for "conversion" another insult. Then they took the symbol for the pagan tri of air water and earth and converted that to the Holy trinity the father the ghost and the blah blah. the earliest churches even have pagan symbols within them which helped "convert" the pagans, ironic isnt it as later once they had established a pressence they then wiped out the Pagans as heritics!

 

as you can tell i am a bit anti christianity, for this if nothing else!

[skyhuck]

The plaque is interesting. This whole religion, birth of christianity/catholism stuff really interests me, though more because I am interested in the old origional religion of the ancient britons and europeans, paganism.

 

The early christians built thier churches directly onto the sites of the pagans church, the old Yews, this in itself was an insult and gave them easy accses to pagan worshipers for "conversion" another insult. Then they took the symbol for the pagan tri of air water and earth and converted that to the Holy trinity the father the ghost and the blah blah. the earliest churches even have pagan symbols within them which helped "convert" the pagans, ironic isnt it as later once they had established a pressence they then wiped out the Pagans as heritics!

 

as you can tell i am a bit anti christianity, for this if nothing else!

 

AH!!!!!!!!! Common ground!! I totally agree with you Tony

 

Look at Xmas and Ester, full of pagan stuff!!!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

AH!!!!!!!!! Common ground!! I totally agree with you Tony

 

Look at Xmas and Ester, full of pagan stuff!!!

 

I am told there is a religion that dates back even further than Paganism, cant remember the name of it but I will have a good chat on this someday with you Huck!

[Gerbutt]

Hey-up bud, I went to go and see the Yew this morning - it is grand isn't it!! Had a funny old time there really, a lady was struggling with a box to the church so I offered to help.....ended up lifting stuff around and setting up flower displays for a couple of hours haha!!!

[Ben Ballard]

Think these 2 yews fit this thread well worth a visit allsaints church ulcombe not far from the A20 lenham,truely amazing trees the biggest yews i have seen you need to see for your self words and pics dont do them justice

 

 

 

 

[silky fox]

Taxus Baccata is my favourite tree.....i found this one in LLangenyw...5,000 years old.

[born2trot]

Awesome trees there , its just mindblowing the historical importance and meaning to the british people that these trees are , past , present and future.... Agree Skyhuck of the christian hijackings especially the bloomin easter chocolate bunny thingy