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| | "World Trees" by Hazel Minot |
 | | These Sacred Trees are often guarded by dragons or serpents -- in antiquity emblems of wisdom more than of cunning -- who will let no one eat of their fruit who has not first conquered the material elements in his nature. |
 | | Here, again, is a tale of the beginning of things, and the "Tree of Speech" is but an episode in the recounting of the coming of men to earth and their subsequent knowledge of decay and death. |
 | | Moreover, near the brink of the fountain stands Akau-lea, that wondrous tree, the Tree of Speech, under whose shadow the gods sit down to drink kava, the tree acting as master of the ceremonies, and calling out the name of him to whom the bowl shall be carried. |
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