"In Philippine mythology, one of the more famous creation accounts tells of the first man, Malakás ("Strong"), and the first woman, Maganda ("Beautiful"), each emerged from one half of a split bamboo stem on an island formed after the battle between Sky and Ocean. In Malaysia, a similar story includes a man who dreams of a beautiful woman while sleeping under a bamboo plant; he wakes up and breaks the bamboo stem, discovering the woman inside. The Japanese folktale "Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" (Taketori Monogatari) tells of a princess from the Moon emerging from a shining bamboo section. Hawaiian bamboo ('ohe) is a kinolau or body form of the Polynesian creator god Kāne."
^^Taken from Wikipedia^^
Needless to say, trees are important in all of mythology, whether you realize it or not. It is hard to escape the image of a tree when reading almost any myth. Be it the story of Daphne and Apollo, the story of Tree of Life, or even stories about the Dryads (Oak tree nymphs in Greek mythology), trees are constantly bewitching us and filling us with wonderment.
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