For those of you who hasn't (or refuse to ;p), you can check out the following link to see what I speak about:
but, reading my litterature on Old Scandinavian religion, Gro Steinland
writes: "Det kosmiska trädet Yggdrasil som växer i världen centrum (...) och omtalas som världsträd och som ödesträd."
(which would roughly translate to: "The cosmisc tree Yggdrasil that grows in t
he centre of the world (...) mentioned as 'world tree' and the 'tree of faith'."This is rather similar to Grandmother Willow
from Pocahontas and the Tree of Souls in Avatar
I can see now how obvious stories from ancient times still are woven into more modern stories such as the Disney film (in the original Pocahontas I can not find a reference to any tree, but I have not really read into much of the right tribes religious believes, but as many N
ative Americans I guess they had the same view of nature in balance as many other tribes had/has).
But I would never have guessed to find such a similarity.
I was not going to make a long post on this (at least not with the very small knowledge I have in the subject, I just thought it was an interesting similarity and that Avatar and Pocahontas was the first thing I came to think of when I read the
book).
The picture is found on:
