World tree
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In certain Indo-European religions there was a belief in a world tree, such as Yggdrasil, in Norse mythology, Oak in Slavic Mythology and in Hinduism a banyan tree.
Although the concept is absent from the Greek mythology, medieval Greek folk traditions and more recent ones, claim that the Tree that holds the Earth is shewn by goblins (Kallikantzaroi).
World Tree (Wacah Chan) also appears in Maya religion as the axis mundi. It connects the Middleworld of man, with Xibalba (Otherworld) and the heavens (Schele & Friedle, 1990).