This whole motif is extremely similar to that of Christianity! The ‘Tree of Immortality’ is the same as Christianity’s Tree of Life. Each direction on the Mayan World Tree is represented by a different color, and its central point is considered the base through each of the layers of existence, the heavens, the earth, and the underworld. The World Tree was considered to the locus of all creation that reached in directions. Tomaoanchan is what the Mayan called their heaven, which they believed to be a mystical place obscured by a mystical mountain upon the earth. The tree was their symbolic connection to Divinity.
Its emphasis on the Tree of Knowledge and Adam and Eve has been recreated in our modern culture a million times! Falling from purity due to the temptation of an evil force, Adam and Eve descended into a harsh reality, completely devoid of a direct connection to the Divine. Virtually everyone in the west has heard or even read the story of Genesis in the Old-Testament. Most experts theorize that it was a symbol of creation. In most of the famous art, the king or other entities were depicted as caring for the tree with special attention, and it had an important spiritual significance. Not much is widely known about the symbology ascribed to the Tree of Life during the Assyrian civilization, just that it was hugely important.
They were said to have emerged from the acacia tree of Iusaaset, which the Egyptians considered the tree of life, referring to it as the “tree in which life and death are enclosed.” Some theorize this is actually a representation of Ayahuasca. In Egyptian mythology, the first couple (earth and sky). The spheres of the Tree of Life demonstrate the order, process, and method of creation. To the Ancient Egyptians, the Tree of Life represented the hierarchical chain of events that brought everything into existence.
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