Walnuts are most often associated with intelligence, wisdom, and inspiration.

Greek mythology says that Prometheus, an immortal titan who rebelled against Zeus by stealing fire from Mount Olympus, gave a single walnut shell containing all the secrets of human future knowledge to his brother Epimetheus as he left him to create the human race.

In Ancient Egypt, sycamores were often planted near tombs and sarcophagi made of sycamore wood returned the dead to the womb of the mother tree goddess to nurture them through the life to death transition.

Sycamore tree is a member of the Earth’s oldest family of trees – found to be more than 100 million years old. In the Egyptian text, the Book of Dead there were two sycamore trees that stood at the eastern gate of Heaven. Between the trees, this is where the Sun God, Ra, showed himself each morning.

Burl wood is anything but average. The swirls, twirls, and eyes dancing in the bark all create a unique, highly figured wood grain. A burl is an unusual-looking collection of tree cells. These are callous tissues. These are formed usually as a response to environmental damage such as injury or fungal colonies. The callous tissue then forms burls that are so admired.