Annotation - Chapter 11, Page 85
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- (85:33) "He sat in the worl tree"
There is a World Tree in many mythologies, including the Maya (who named the Milky Way after it) and the Norse. In Norse/Germanic myth, the tree Yggdrasil connected the underworld and Asgard; in its branches, an eagle (sometimes identified with Odin) looked down on the world.