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Old Belief
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Enormous ceiba with a smooth pale trunk and buttressed roots standing alone in cleared ground at night, its branches spread wide against a starry sky

the ceiba at night

The tree is the legend's anchor. A ceiba standing alone in cleared ground is a landmark visible for kilometres and spared by every farmer who cleared around it.

Basis: The ceiba in Yucatec belief · AI-generated

More of this creature

Close view of a green-grey young ceiba trunk studded all over with hard conical thorns, daylight and foliage showing at the edgesthe thorns on the trunk →Narrow white limestone path curving away into dry scrub forest under a deep blue night sky, the surrounding leaves pale with moonlightthe path past the tree →