Tree stories

The Sacred Ones (2x3)

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A sycamore fig tree is the motionless witness of orthodox rites In Ethiopia while a giant banyan covers multiple hectares in India. The two trees are close cousins; they both have become sacred and carry men’s hopes. In northern Ethiopia – at the heart of the legendary city of Aksoum – a sycamore fig tree has been sitting on the central plaza all while watching over the inhabitants for about two hundred years. It was revered as a god long ago, now it is an immovable witness to the orthodox rites of men – not far from the chapel where the Ark of the Covenant supposedly lies. 4000 km East – in the Punjab state in northern India – the inhabitants of a small village called Cholti Kheri worship an extraordinary tree. A banyan fig tree – also called “the Sage” – is able to develop itself into a gigantic tree to cover multiple hectares by resurrecting itself continuously.