Editing World tree (section)

===North Asian and Siberian cultures===
The world tree is also represented in the mythologies and [[folklore]] of [[North Asia]] and [[Siberia]]. According to Mihály Hoppál, Hungarian scholar Vilmos Diószegi located some motifs related to the world tree in [[Siberian shamanism]] and other [[North Asian]] peoples. As per Diószegi's research, the "bird-peaked" tree holds the sun and the moon, and the underworld is "a land of snakes, lizards and frogs".<ref>M. Hoppál. "Shamanism and the Belief System of the Ancient Hungarians". In: ''Ethnographica et folkloristica carpathica'' 11 (1999): 59.</ref>

In the mythology of the [[Samoyedic peoples|Samoyeds]], the world tree connects different realities (underworld, this world, upper world) together. In their mythology the world tree is also the symbol of [[Mother Nature|Mother Earth]] who is said to give the Samoyed [[Shamanism|shaman]] his drum and also help him travel from one world to another. According to scholar Aado Lintrop, the [[larch]] is "often regarded" by [[Siberian peoples]] as the World Tree.<ref name=Lintrop2001/>

Scholar Aado Lintrop also noted the resemblance between an account of the World Tree from the [[Yakuts]] and a [[Mokshas|Moksha-Mordvinic]] folk song (described as a great [[birch]]).<ref name=Lintrop2001/>

The imagery of the world tree, its roots burrowing underground, its branches reaching upward, the luminaries in its branches is also present in the mythology of [[Finno-Ugric peoples]] from Northern Asia, such as the [[Khanty]] and the [[Mansi people|Mansi]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sanjuán|first1=Oscar Abenójar|title=El abedul de hojas doradas: representaciones y funciones del " Axis Mundi" en el folclore finougrio|journal=Liburna|date=2009|issue=2|pages=13–24|url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=3643195}}</ref>