Note 502 — Chapter V · SYMBOLISM OF THE MOTHER AND OF REBIRTH

Javanese tribes commonly set up their images of God in an artificial cavity of a tree. This fits in with the “little hole” phantasy of Zinzendorf and his sect. See Pfister: “Frömmigkeit des Grafen von Zinzendorf.” In a Persian myth, the white Haoma is a divine tree, growing in the lake Vourukasha, the fish Khar-mâhî circles protectingly around it and defends it against the toad Ahriman. It gives eternal life, children to women, husbands to girls and horses to men. In the Minôkhired the tree is called “the preparer of the corpse” (Spiegel: “Erân. Altertumskunde,” II, 115).