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rowan--photography · 2 months

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silver birch in the mist

Decemer 2022

#original photographers #nature photography #lensblr #woods #trees #silver birch #mist #eather #fog #dark nature #aesthetic #forestcore #naturecore

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rowanphotographyagain · 9 months

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bendy birch

#woods #trees #silver birch #nature photography #photographers on tumblr #phone

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benshanti · 17 days

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Silver birch buds opening

#silver birch #spring #nature #shropshire

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theothermaidoftarth · 3 months

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Tfw everything seems to make your throat burn and you don’t know whether it’s cross-reactivity or you’re actually allergic to this thing. And it’s not even pollen season yet. Sigh. My already complicated relationship with food has only gotten more complicated since finding out, too

#food allergies #hazelnuts #silver birch #the only two things I know I’m allergic to after becoming almost 1k the poorer for the requisite blood tests #And it’s not until April when I can see an allergist for further help #tired #so tired

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richs-pics · 9 months

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Siler birch vs iron fence

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angiec333 · 4 months

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Silver birch trees in winter sunlight

#silver birch #trees #winter #photographers on tumblr #original photographers

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unkn0wnvariable · 2 months

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Silver Birch Bark

Moss growing over the patterns and textures in the bark of a silver birch treen, in the woodland at Glapthorn Cow Pastures.

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yoga-onion · 1 year

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Legends and myths about trees

Celtic beliefs in trees (9)

B for Beth (Birch) - December 24th - January 20th

“Lady of the Forest - First month of the Celtic tree calendar”

Colour: white, Star: Venus, Gem: crystal, Gender: female, Element: air & water, Symbols: initiation, purity + cleanliness, love + friendship, birth + rite of passage

The fast-growing birch, as a nurturing tree, provides a shield for slower-growing trees, so oaks and pines follow the birch in putting down roots in the earth. The leaves are small and cast a wispy shadow on the ground, allowing other plants to grow in the shade they create, which in turn attracts a wide variety of insects, birds and other creatures to the forest. It is ironic that the weaker trees, sheltered by the birch and increasing in number, overtake the nurturing trees and grow, driving the birch to death. The birch has connotations of openings to new horizons and overcoming difficulties. It was believed that the birch, which provides strength and protection in times of adversity, would nurture new life and its forests would repel evil.

The barked logs were burnt ceaselessly as yule logs to be lit in the fireplace on Christmas Eve during the rituals of the time.

In Celtic shamanism, this birch is considered a cosmic tree, and the druids would climb the trunk of the white birch to different heavens and visualised in their minds to interact with the spirit world.

At the base of the birch is the hallucinogenic and highly toxic Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric. Celtic shamans believed in the fly agaric mushrooms, in Indian mythology in soma drinks, or the ancient Etruscans believed it to bring immortality and was a holy mushroom. They used to trip to the underworld with its help.

Birch birch has a variety of medicinal properties, especially for rheumatism and arthritis. It cleanses the body and is effective against skin diseases, and the ancient Celts saw the white bark of birch as a sign of its cleansing powers.

木にまつわる伝説・神話

ケルト人の樹木の信仰 (9)

B は Beth (ｼﾗｶﾊﾞ) - 12月24日～1月20日

『森の淑女〜ケルトの木の暦の第1月』

色: 白、星: 金星、宝石: 水晶、性: 女性、要素: 空気 & 水、シンボル: 発端、純粋さ＋清潔、愛＋友情、誕生＋通過儀礼

生長の早いシラカバは、養いの木として、生長の遅い木の楯となってくれるので、オークやマツはシラカバの後を追うように大地に根を下ろす。葉は小さく、大地にうっすら影を落とすので、そうしてできた日陰のもとで他の植物がすくすく成長し、結果として、多種多様の昆虫や鳥や、さまざまな生き物を森へ誘うことになる。シラカバに庇護されてどんどん数を増やした弱い木が、養いの木を追い越して生長し、シラカバを死に追いやってしまうのは皮肉としか言いようがない。シラカバには新しい地平を切り開く、難局を乗り切るという含みがある。逆境にあって力を与え、楯ともなって身を守ってくれるシラカバは新たな生命を育み、その森は邪悪なものを撃退すると信じられていた。

樹皮を剥がした丸太は、クリスマス・イヴに暖炉にくべるユール・ログとして当時のころの儀式が続くあいだ、絶えることなく燃やされた。

ケルトのシャーマニズムでは、このシラカバが宇宙樹とされていて、ドルイドは、白いシラカバの幹を登り、違う天界へ行き、霊界と交流することを心に描いた。

シラカバの根元には幻覚作用があり猛毒のベニシダダケ (ｱﾏﾆﾀ･ﾑｽｶﾘｱ)が生えている。ケルトのシャーマンたちはベニシダダケを、インド神話ではソーマ酒を、あるいは古代エトルリア人は不死をもたらすと考え、聖なるキノコと信じていた。彼らはその助けを借りて冥界へとトリップしていた。

シラカバにはさまざまな薬効があり、特にリューマチや関節炎に効果を発揮する。身体を清め、皮膚病にも有効で、古代ケルト人は、シラカバの白い樹皮を浄化する為力の表れと見ていた。

#trees #tree legend #tree myth #silver birch #birch #birch forest #celtic belief #mythology #legend #folklore #fly agaric #holy mushroom #celtic shamans #druid #immortality #cleansing power #philosophy #nature #art

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pennyworthcentral · 1 year

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GOTHAM CITY - WAYNE MANOR

#pennyworth #pennyworthedit #dcedit #thomas wayne #wayne manor #season 3 #3.06 #silver birch #centralgifs

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lailoken · 1 year

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Silver Birch Shillelagh (For Sale)

This is a hand-crafted Silver Birch Shillelagh, which I am currently selling.

The length of wood used was ritually harvested from an old Silver Birch tree, which are lovely and folklorically signifcant trees, known for their associations with Purity, Hope, and Renewal. The knob of the stave—which was a natural formed root bulb—was de-barked and polished, while the rest of the piece was carefully treated and varnished so as to protect the glossy paper-bark of the specimen. The sorcerous wood varnish I used is one I developed myself using a variety of potent arboreal resins, such as Dragon's Blood, Storax, and Black Frankincense—both accentuated the warm color of the polished wood, while preserving the shine of the bark.

This Shillelagh is lightweight but sturdy, measures approximately 40 inches/101.5 centimeters in length, and I am willing to be reasonably flexible with pricing—so reach out if you think you would be interested in purchasing it! As always, I'm glad to work out payment plans when necessary.

#silver birch #birch #shillelagh #birch Shillelagh #birch stave #birch cane #pagan woodwork #pagan stave #craft tools #ritual implements #traditional withcraft #pellarcraft #pellar

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lycomorpha · 1 year

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Eivor's Herbarium - P3: Silver Birch

WIP posts for this page are here and here. See a video of mounting the pressed birch here]

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"Silver birch from Grantebridgescire

In the fens, where we first met with Soma, stand ghostly birches"

"It gives many gifts

this familiar friend;

paper, sap, wood,

tar that mends"

Silver birch (Betula pendula)

This is a common tree here in the UK, but it would have been familiar to Eivor from Norway too. Around the world, including in Scandinavia, birches of many kinds have long a history of use in many forms. Birch makes an excellent firewood and a strong timber, but other uses of birch include;

Use of birch tar extracted from bark as an adhesive e.g. in fletching arrows and making boats, as waterproofing to treat leather, and as a chewing gum (according to ~5000 year old finds from Finland and Denmark)

Birch sap can be drunk as birch water, and a syrup made from boiled sap has been used for thousands of years and is still in use today across Europe

The peeling bark has long been used as paper - key historic examples include Sanskrit texts from Afghanistan and East Slavic birch bark letters found in Russia

Extracts of buds, leaves, and bark have been used in traditional medicines for wound healing and as antiseptics; extracts contain betulin and betulinic acid, and there's one EU approved topical treatment for wounds, Episalvan, which contains birch extract

Birch bark was used in making a variety of textiles, and the inner bark is also edible, though most references seem to suggest it was eaten as a famine food (and as with edible lichens like rock tripe, this usage doesn't suggest it tastes great... 😬)

So I've no doubt Eivor would know this tree well. It's found all over the landscape of AC Valhalla, but I noticed it most in the Grantebridgescire (Cambridgeshire) arc on the riverbank looking across to Duroliponte, and in the marshy fens of Middletun where we first meet Soma. A quick look around the encampment in the fens shows trees of various ages. Stumps bearing turkey tails, bracket fungi, and lichens can also be found all around the place. This is a nice touch - I see similar fungi growing on birch often, so it helped make the environment seem realistic to me.

Birch stumps/trunks with various fungi and lichens in ACV

Bracket fungi and lichens on birch IRL

Other beautiful places to find birch looking good in game are the autumn woods of Ledecestrescire (Leicestershire), the Forest of Denu (Dean), Glowercesterscire (Gloucestershire - sorry, but it's weird AF just using the Olde names when you live here lol.) There's some nice examples in and around Ravensthorpe too.

Birch trees in Ravensthorpe

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Other pages in Eivor's herbarium

Front page: small plants - yarrow

Page 1: Oak - the Ravensthorpe marker tree

Page 2: White clover

#eivors herbarium #Eivor's herbarium #video game botany #videogamebotany #video game plants #ac valhalla #assassins creed valhalla #assassinscreedvalhalla #eivor wolfkissed #eivor varinsdottir #lady eivor #birch #silver birch #botanical art #herbarium #book herbarium

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rowanphotographyagain · 1 year

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#woods #trees #autumn #silver birch #nature photography #photographers on tumblr #phone

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whats-in-a-sentence · 7 months

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Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers – celandines.