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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
A tree was the basic form in which the Arabian moon goddess, Al-Uzza, was worshipped in Mecca, all Semitic divinities being connected with trees and sacred shrubs. On certain Babylonian seals the identification of the moon with a tree was represented in a realistic and yet, at the same time, surrealistic way, often by a boat or cart either decorated with branches or with a tree standing upright in the centre. Conversely, the moon god was thought of as a tree-trunk with a crescent moon [Briffault, 1927, 630f]. The lunar boat with a tree standing in its centre also crops up in illustrations on Egyptian papyruses, in primitive Oceanic art and in Africa [Bayley, 1919, 2, 309, 314, fig. 1287; Tallqvist, 1948, 81, fig. 52; Lurker, 1960, 32; Engler, 1962, 171f, figs.. 333a, 335]. In Crete and Greece, too, moon deities were worshipped and represented in the form of a tree [Briffault, 1927, 630]. (pp.57-58)
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| Layer of meaning(van Straten, 1994) | Conception of Information(Furner, 2004) | Level of knowledge(Nanetti, 2018) | View of reality(Popper, 1972, 1979; Gnoli, 2018) |
| Iconological interpretation | Relevance (Iconological) | Interpretations,Narratives | Third world (Culture) |

