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#FolkloreThursday The sacred woods include holly, laurel, pine and spruce, and cedar These trees “stayed awake during all seven days and were blessed to stay green. Burning cedar is important to Cherokee spiritual beliefs. “Cedar is used to cleanse an area of negative energy.
#FolkloreThursday In Aztec (also called Mexica) cosmology, the soul’s journey to the Underworld after death leaves them with four destinations: the Sacred Orchard of the Gods, the Place of Darkness, the Kingdom of the Sun, and a paradise called the Mansion of the Moon.