menzze, thanks for sharing your beautiful song, it's wise and sensitive glimpse into the 'whys' of age-old human reverence for oak trees. The final verse brings to mind all of the other time-honoured legends and traditions surrounding the 'dying God', from Odin to Osiris, from the Oak King slain by the Holly King at Summer Solstice to the gospel stories of Jesus ...

" He cut down my stem and he cut down my life but I did feel no pain or fear them
The fire itself when it's warming their hearts shows a way to the land of the Oaktree
In that cold winternight when I's dying one by one when my whole life was one by one fading
I gave to my people like all time before I had given to them what they're needing"


Wow! And that reminds of the reason Robin Hood made his mysterious and magical way into this thread at all ... because of the traditions surrounding the Major Oak of Sherwood Forest. It is a very interesting "coincidence" (ha ha!) that Robin and his 12 merry men (... gee, how many? TWELVE? sounds so vaguely familiar!! ;>) ...) came to be associated with an ancient oak, the traditional dwelling-place of divinity!

Now I'm off into the local Greenwoods to sit beneath my sheltering old Oak and contemplate how and when to best kick Nerd's arse ... or if indeed such a whoopin is at all necessary! I shall return duly enlightened shortly....

:>)   daylia