Editing World tree (section)

====Oak tree====
The [[sacred tree]] of [[Zeus]] is the oak,<ref name="Philpot">{{cite book|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47215/47215-h/47215-h.htm|first=Mrs. J.H.|last=Philpot|title=The Sacred Tree; or the tree in religion and myth|publisher=MacMillan & Co.|place=London|year=1897}}</ref> and the one at [[Dodona]] (famous for the cultic worship of Zeus and the oak) was said by later tradition to have its roots furrow so deep as to reach the confines of Tartarus.<ref>Philpot, Mrs. J. H. (1897). ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47215/47215-h/47215-h.htm#c5 The Sacred Tree; or the tree in religion and myth]''. London: MacMillan & Co. pp. 93–94.</ref>

In a different cosmogonic account presented by [[Pherecydes of Syros#Reconstruction|Pherecydes of Syros]], male deity ''Zas'' (identified as [[Zeus]]) marries female divinity ''Chthonie'' (associated with the earth and later called Gê/[[Gaia]]), and from their marriage sprouts an oak tree. This oak tree connects the heavens above and its roots grew into the Earth, to reach the depths of [[Tartarus]]. This oak tree is considered by scholarship to symbolize a cosmic tree, uniting three spheres: underworld, terrestrial and celestial.<ref>Marmoz, Julien. "La Cosmogonie de Phérécyde de Syros". In: ''Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée'' n. 5 (2019–2020). pp. 5–41.</ref>