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Thanks for the kind words, I will do my best to contribute.

Good luck with Tree

Bruffner, nice to meet you. Good luck with the "tree marriage" topic. You are exactly on the right path, reading The Golden Bough. One way to consider it is as a symbolic marriage, where certain priests in antiquity take responsibility for protecting nature, or specifically guarding a particular symbol; not so unlike the more modern idea of nuns "married" to Christ. Peter H. St.John, M.S. 14:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks PeterStJohn, its a very interesting and wierd ritual almost like totem worship or other forms of polythiestic worship of idols. Although the example in The Golden Brough is quite extreme and may just be a interpretation of what the author witnessed it seems extremely likely there is some truth in what he said.