Editing World tree (section)

=====Latvian culture=====
In [[Latvian mythology]] the world tree ({{langx|lv|Austras koks}}) was one of the most important beliefs, also associated with the birth of the world. Sometimes it was identified as an oak or a [[birch]], or even replaced by a wooden pole.<ref name="Běťáková, Marta Eva 2012. p. 178"/> According to Ludvigs Adamovičs's book on Latvian folk belief, ancient Latvian mythology attested the existence of a Sun Tree as an expression of the World Tree, often described as "a birch tree with three leaves or forked branches where the Sun, the  Moon, God, Laima, Auseklis (the morning star), or the daughter of the Sun rest[ed]".<ref name=Kencis2011>{{cite journal|last1=Ķencis|first1=Toms|title=The Latvian Mythological Space in Scholarly Time|journal=Archaeologia Baltica|date=20 September 2011|volume=15|pages=144–157|doi=10.15181/ab.v15i1.28}}</ref>