"The dog wanted to take her somewhere. He led her to a well beneath a big tree where they had thrown Icarius's body. Erigone buried him. Then she climbed high into the tree and hanged herself."
It seems to me that the tree symbolizes much more than a life bearing creation within mythology. Although the tree has the potential to represent much more than the modern human mind can comprehend, Atletis utilizes the tree in this story as a burial site as well as a god-given suicidal tool.
I used this picture of a tree not only because i haven't the means of taking my own picture as well as this person isn't showing their face, the tree is hiding it, dethroning the human figure-it exerts its power over us.
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