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Trees in Germanic myth are sacred because
1. The Great Ash, Yggdrasil, is the metaphysical pole that all realities are structured around (sacred mountains like Mt. Olympus can play similar roles in other “pagan” religions)
2. After Woden created the world from Ymir’s corpse the first man and woman were said to of been driftwood from the debris that Woden breathed life into so worshipping trees could be a sort of primordial ancestor worship in this sense (you can see trees used in reference to humans in skaldic poetry “armoured trees” = warriors etc...)
3. Some specific trees were held sacred to specific Gods like the Oak to Thunor