DETAILED NOTES ON TREE OF LIFE

Tree of life on the rhyton from Marlik, Iran, at present in the countrywide Museum of Iran. In the Avestan literature and Iranian mythology, there are several sacred vegetal icons relevant to life, eternality and treatment, such as Amesha Spenta; Ameretat, the guardian of crops and goddess of trees and immortality; Gaokerena or white haoma, a tree