What are Traditional Sacred Groves?

Due to its importance and traditional cultural value, Osun - Osgogbo was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. Yoruba 's fertilized goddess is the god of Orsons. More than four centuries ago, they made sacred groves and began to keep it. This place is not only well preserved, it has been handed down generously. Even now, Osun-Osgogbo's traditional residents hold a magnificent festival called Osun-Osgogbo Festival every August.

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is a jungle in the outskirts of Osogbo town in western Nigeria. In the area where Yoruba lived, sacred fields were common in the past. Over time, in addition to the Osun - Osogbo Sacred Grove, these sacred Groves are abandoned or shrunk. There are 40 shrines, 2 palaces, and many sculptures and works of art in this sacred grove. From its unique position, Osun-Osongbo Sacred Grove was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.

The sacred orchard of Semnones is a german tribe belonging to the Suebi culture and is considered by Tacitus to be the most prominent of all sacred trees. (Chadwick, 1900; Cusack, 2011; Davidson, 1988; Tolley, 2013) through ceremonies including sacrifices of bloody human beings. Alnus sp. Trees may be used for these sacrifices (de Cleene & Lejeune, 1999)

In the history of mankind, holy trees are not separated from Hinduism and Buddhism. The earliest written chronicle including Gilgamesh epic and Bible records the destruction and cultivation of sacred orchards. In the hiking trail of the Simeon Mountains in Ethiopia, the only tree still present is such a sacred grove, among which there are the Ethiopian Orthodox Churchweed and its monasteries. Formerly these sacred groves were worshiped by the heathens of Agao. Their religious gatherings, sacrifices and graves were related to the forest. These groves were obviously used by early Christians and later Muslim converts. With the global destruction of forests and the globalization of culture, the traditions related to these forests have gone globally, but the deep facts in these relationships are still relevant. Wood plays an important role in the security of food, water and climate, but plays an important role in our mental health as well.