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Welcome to the Library of

ThePlantSoul

Here, a quiet space is coming to life —

a living library filled with stories, tales, legends, and ancient writings from all times.

Each page you’ll soon open will be a doorway:

into a world where plants speak, heal, and accompany.

To myths, wisdom, and old voices

that bring us closer to the soul of nature.

🌿 Whether you wish to browse, to sink in, or to remember —

this place will grow with every story that is kept.

Much is still silent…

but soon, you’ll be able to read here —

with heart, with soul, with time.

Types of Entry

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Types of Entry

Blessing Verse

Channeled / Received Message

Dream

Fairy Tale

Legend

Letter / Message

Memory

Mysterious Tradition

Myth

Plant Fairy Tale

Plant Legend

Plant Myth

Poetry

Prayer

Ritual Description

Sacred Text

Shamanic Journey

Song / Chant

True Story / Real Experience

Vision

Wisdom Text

Traditional Cultural Context

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Traditional Cultural Context

Africa

Central Africa

Bantu Plant Culture & Spiritual Forest Medicine

Fang & Bwiti Tradition (Gabon)

East Africa

Maasai Herbal Tradition (Kenya, Tanzania)

Oromo- und Gadaa-Tradition (Äthiopien, Kenya)

Swahili Spirituality & Plant Use (Coastal Regions)

North Africa

Berber Plant Rituals (Amazigh)

Egyptian Plant Magic & Temple Cult

Tuareg Spirituality with Plant Aspects

Southern Africa

San & Khoikhoi – Plant Knowledge (Namibia, Botswana, South Africa)

Xhosa Rituals with Plants (South Africa)

Zulu Spirituality & Plant Medicine

West Africa

Akan Religion (Ghana, Ivory Coast)

Mandinka and Bambara Traditions (Mali etc.)

Vodun Traditions (Benin, Togo, Ghana)

Yoruba-Ifá-Tradition (Nigeria, Benin, Togo)

America

North America

Afro-American Healing Practices and Syncretism

European-Influenced Folk Healing in North America

Indigenous Plant-Based Spirituality of North America

Mexican-North American Transitional Traditions

South America

Afro-Brazilian Plant Religions

Amazonian Plant Spirituality

Andean Plant Rituals

Guarani and Tupi Traditions

Mapuche Healing Practices

Arab-Islamic Cultural Sphere

Arabic Plant Rituals

Islamic Scent & Healing Plants

Maghreb Folk Medicine

Ottoman / Turkish Herbal Medicine

Persian-Zoroastrian Traditions

Sufi Plant Mysticism

Unani Medicine (Arabic-Indian)

Arctic Regions

Aleuten & Yupik (Alaska, Bering Sea)

Inuit Traditions (Greenland, Canada, Alaska)

Sámi Healing & Plant Cult (Scandinavia)

Siberian-Shamanic Lines of the Arctic

Asia

Central Asia

Altai Shamanism (Altai Mountains)

Buryat Shamanism (Buryatia / Southern Siberia)

Kazakh Shamanism

Kyrgyz Nomadic Spirituality

Mongolian Shamanism

Tengrism (Altai, Tuva, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia)

Tuva Shamanism (Republic of Tuva)

East Asia

Ainu Plant Culture (Hokkaido)

Chinese Buddhism with Plant Symbolism

Daoist Plant Veneration (China)

Folk Magic & Ancestor Cult in China

Japanese Plant Rituals in Ancestral & Seasonal Cycles

Japanese Shintō & Plant Ritual

Japanese Shugendō Tradition with Plant Aspects

Korean Shamanism (Muism) & Plant Cults

Ryūkyū Spirituality (Okinawa)

Northern Asia

Chukchi

Ewenki Traditions

Khanty & Mansi

Nenets & Selkup

Siberian Shamanism

Yakut (Sakha)

South Asia

Adivasi Traditions

Ayurveda (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka)

Himalayan Plant Magic

Nepalese Folk Buddhism

Siddha Medicine (South India, Tamil Nadu)

Sinhalese Buddhism (Sri Lanka)

Tantric Plant Rituals (Himalayas, Bengal, Nepal)

Vedda Tradition (Sri Lanka)

Vedic Culture / The Vedas (India)

Southeast Asia

Animistic Mountain Peoples

Balinese Hinduism with Plant Rituals (Indonesia)

Indigenous Herbal Knowledge of East Timor

Javanese Mysticism (Kejawèn)

Khmer Spiritism & Ancestor Cult

Malay and Indonesian Folk Magic (Bomoh, Dukun)

Philippine Babaylan Tradition

Plant Magic of the Mountain Tribes (Hmong, Karen, Akha, Lahu etc.)

Plant-Related Spirit Cult in Indonesia (Java, Bali, Borneo)

Theravāda Buddhism (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia)

Vietnamese Folk Buddhism & Dao Mau

Europe

Balkan Region

Balkan Folk Medicine (Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania etc.)

Romani / Gypsy Herbal Traditions

Vlachs’ Tradition & Plant Cult

Central Europe

Alpine Folk Magic

Central European Monastic & Peasant Traditions

Germanic Plant Lore

Eastern Europe

Baltic-Latvian-Lithuanian Folk Magic

Russian-Orthodox Folk Culture (with Plant Connection)

Slavic Nature Spirituality

Islands of the North West Atlantic

Celtic High Culture (Insular) (Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man etc.)

Irish-Catholic Tradition with Plant Connection

Northern Europe

Celtic-Nordic Transitional Zone (Scotland, Orkney)

Nordic Mythology (Scandinavia)

Sami Culture / Sápmi

Southern Europe

Ancient Greco-Roman Culture

Christian-Folkloric Herbal Traditions

Mediterranean Folk Medicine & Customs

Western Europe

Celtic Culture (Mainland & Brittany)

Gallo-Roman Folk Religions

Old French Folk Healing (Provence, Dordogne, Pyrenees)

Modern / Syncretic Systems

Aromatherapy (Spiritual–Energetic)

Cosmic / Planetary Plant Paths

Digital Plant Paths & Web Rituals

Energy Healing with Plants

Flower Essences & Soul Medicine

Modern Plant Rituals in Urban Space

Neoshamanism & Modern Ritual Work

New Feminine Rituals & Plant Magic

Plant Communication & Plant Media Work

Plant Encounters in Everyday Life

Psychedelic Integration & Modern Plant Spirit Path

Ritual Nature Art & Plant Oracles

Scientifically Inspired Plant Consciousness Work

Oceania

Aboriginal Spirituality (Australia)

Māori Ritual Practice (New Zealand / Aotearoa)

Melanesian Plant Rituals (e.g. Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands)

Micronesian Plant Practices (e.g. Palau, Kiribati, Marshall Islands)

Polynesian Plant Culture (e.g. Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa)

Geographic Origin

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Geographic Origin

Additional Island Regions

Africa

Central Africa

East Africa

Islands in the Indian Ocean (e.g. Madagascar, Comoros, Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles)

North Africa

Southern Africa

West Africa

America

Caribbean (e.g. Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Bahamas)

Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama)

North America (Canada, USA, Greenland)

South America (e.g. Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay)

Arctic & Antarctic

Antarctica (incl. South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands)

Arctic Region (e.g. Alaska, Northern Canada, Greenland, Arctic Russia, Sápmi)

Asia

Central Asia (e.g. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan)

East Asia (e.g. China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia)

Northern Asia (e.g. Siberia, Russia east of the Urals)

South Asia (e.g. India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives)

Southeast Asia (e.g. Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines)

Western Asia / Middle East (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon)

Europe

Central Europe

Eastern Europe (e.g. Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia west of the Urals)

Islands of the North Atlantic (England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, Hebrides, Orkneys, Channel Islands)

Mediterranean Islands (Crete, Cyprus, Sicily, Sardinia, Balearic Islands)

Northern Europe (e.g. Scandinavia, Iceland, Baltic region)

Southern Europe (e.g. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Balkans)

Western Europe (e.g. Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux)

Oceania

Australia

Melanesia (e.g. Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia)

Micronesia (e.g. Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands)

New Zealand

Polynesia (e.g. Samoa, Tonga, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Cook Islands)

Plant Myth without Region

Transregional (for tales or myths without clear geographic origin)

Time of Origin

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Time of Origin

Ancient Transmission

Antiquity & Classical Era

Contemporary Nature-Inspired

Enlightenment & Romanticism

Middle Ages & Early Modern Period

Modern Transmission

Unknown / Mixed

Reverence Plant

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Reverence Plant

Nettle

Tonka Bean

Vanilla

Mood / Intension

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Mood / Intension

Anger / Rage

Boundary

Cleansing

Comfort

Confrontation

Connection

Courage

Destruction / Death

Dissolution

Fighting Spirit

Forgiveness

Gratitude

Grief

Hope

Joy

Letting Go

Protection

Shadow Work

Wonder

Season / Festival

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Season / Festival

Cultural festivals without dogmatic scripture-binding

African nature and harvest festivals

Alpine custom

Ancient American plant festivals

Asian nature and light festivals

Balkan region and Southeastern Europe

Baltic and Finnish sun and plant festivals

Celtic-inspired festivals

Folk customs with plant connection worldwide

Germanic and Nordic festivals

Mediterranean / Southern Europe

North American Indigenous festivals

Oceanic plant and tree festivals

Persian and Central Asian nature festivals

Slavic nature festivals

Earth-rooted Rituals

Air Rituals

Ancestral and Grave Rituals

Animal-Connected Rituals

Blessing Rituals / Gratitude Ceremonies

Circle Rituals and Dances

Cleansing and Healing Rituals

Earth Rituals

Fire Rituals

Place Rituals and Site Blessings

Plant Rituals

Seasonal Earth Rituals

Sun and Moon Rituals

Threshold Rituals / Life Transitions

Water Rituals

Natural cycle festivals

Ancestor festivals

Autumn Equinox

Full Moon Ritual

Harvest thanksgiving / harvest festivals

Monthly Cycles / Women’s Circles

Natural Phenomenon Rituals

New Moon Ritual

New Year (Natural Cycle)

Sowing festivals

Spring equinox

Summer Solstice

Threshold Festivals in the Yearly Cycle

Winter Solstice

Plant-related Traditions

Ancestral Plants

Ceremonial Blossoms and Wreaths

Harvest and Plant Festivals with Botanical Significance

House and Hearth Plants

Love Plants and Bridal Greenery

Mythically Charged Herbs

Plants of Thresholds and Transitions

Protective and Apotropaic Plants

Sacred Trees in Folklore

Seasons

Autumn

Dark Season

Early spring (Imbolc time)

Early summer

Frost season

High summer (Lughnasadh time)

Indian Summer (or Late Summer)

Late autumn

Late summer

Spring

Summer

Sun time

Time of fog

Time of light

Winter

Spiritual Theme

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Spiritual Theme

Ancestral Work

Blessing

Channeling

Connection to Inner Power

Connection to Sacred Power Places

Contact with Ancestors

Dreamwork

Healing Circle

Initiation

Meditation

Mirror Work / Inner Reflection

Offering / Sacred Gift

Oracle

Plant Meditation

Plant Shamanism

Prayer

Ritual

Sound Healing

Surrender

Threshold Work

Trance

The Gentle Nettle

…about a special relationship with a defensive plant

The Noble Vanilla

Blessing Verse

…for a plant often used, yet far from ordinary – one that opens my heart.

Tonka an I

…how the tonka bean touched my senses and my soul.

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