Prompt: Sacred Tree
Sacred Ceiba
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5 min readJun 6, 2021
World tree of Mesoamerica
One of the things I love about travel is the discovery of what trees are held Sacred in every region, and why. In the Yucatan and other parts of Mesoamerica, one of these is the Ceiba. Its spiky trunk reminds me of roses and their protective thorns. A Ceiba, or Kapok, is one of the largest trees in the Mexican bush and Central American…