Tea mug with strainer, tree of life 1pc

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Warning: these mugs are NOT suitable for the dishwasher or microwave.

Bone china
Kaolin, feldspar and quartz, commonly used to make porcelain clay, are mixed with a minimum of 35% bone ash. Thanks to its composition, bone china can be fired at a temperature of approximately 1250 °C. This produces the strongest type of porcelain that exists and a distinctive ivory colour.

The Tree of Life in various religions and spiritual traditions

The Tree of Life is a powerful symbol that has existed for centuries and around the world in various religious and spiritual traditions.

Tree of Life, ancient Iran
In Iranian mythology there are several sacred plant icons associated with life, healing and eternity. As guardian of plants, goddess of trees and immortality.

Tree of Life, Baháʼí Faith
The concept of the tree of life appears in the writings of the Baháʼí faith, where it can refer to the Manifestation of God, the great teacher who reveals himself to humanity from age to age.

Tree of Life, Buddhism
According to Buddhist tradition, the Bodhi tree, or Bo tree (Ficus religiosa), is the tree under which Prince Siddhartha sat when he attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, India, around 2,500 years ago, thus becoming the Buddha (the Awakened One).

Tree of Life, China
In Chinese mythology, carvings of the tree of life often also depict a phoenix and a dragon, with the dragon frequently representing immortality. A Taoist story tells of a tree that bears the peach of immortality once every three thousand years, and anyone who eats its fruit gains immortality.

Tree of Life, Europe
Antoine-Joseph Pernety, a famous eighteenth-century writer and alchemist, identified the Tree of Life with the elixir of life and the Philosopher's Stone.

Tree of Life, Germanic paganism and Norse mythology
In Germanic paganism, trees play a significant role and appear in various aspects of surviving texts and even in the names of their gods. The tree of life appears in Norse religion as Yggdrasil, the world tree, which stretches across 9 realms and holds 3 magical sources of all life: the source of wisdom and knowledge, the source of past, present and future, and the source of space, the cosmos itself.

Tree of Life, Islam
Trees also play an important role in the Qur'an. The date palm is mentioned around 20 times and is described as coming from paradise and curing poisons. It is the tree under which Mary – according to Islam – gave birth to Jesus. Of the olive tree it is written: 'He showed a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of the Lamb of God. In the middle of the road and on either side of the river grows the tree of life, which yields twelve baskets of fruit each month. And the leaves of this tree are for the healing of the people.'

Tree of Life, Mesoamerica – Maya culture
For the Maya, the central world tree was perceived or represented by the ceiba tree. It represents the axis mundi, the stable centre of the universe.

Tree of Life, Judaism
The Tree of Life is mentioned in the Book of Genesis. The best-known tree in the Garden of Eden is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, from which Adam and Eve ate and thereby caused their expulsion from paradise. Judaism also refers to the tree of life, or the tree of souls. This tree produces souls, and therefore life itself.

Tree of life, Native America
The tree of life motif is firmly present in the traditions of the indigenous peoples of America, including Ojibwe cosmology. The tree of life represents everything that lives on this planet and in the universe. It 'beats' with the rhythm of life, day by day, year by year, life by life. Native Americans hold everything living in very high regard and are masters at maintaining balance between their own needs and what nature provides.

Volume: 400 ml