The Trees of the Sun and the Moon are two legendary trees associated with Alexander the Great. The earliest known account of the trees is found in the apocryphal ''

Letter of Alexander to Aristotle The ''Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem'' ("Letter of Alexander to Aristotle") is a purported Letter (message), letter from Alexander the Great to the philosopher Aristotle concerning his adventures in Indian subcontinent, India. Although accep ...

'', where it take up about a quarter of the text.. The Tree of the Sun is male and that of the Moon female. They foretell the future in

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

and Indian languages. In response to Alexander's queries, they tell him that he will become lord of the world but die by poisoning in Babylon the next year. His mother will die miserably but his sister will have happy lives. The trees are depicted on the

Ebstorf map The Ebstorf Map was an example of a (a medieval European map of the world). It was made by Gervase of Ebstorf, who was possibly the same man as Gervase of Tilbury, some time between 1234 and 1240. Description The map was found in a convent i ...

, the

Psalter world map The Psalter World Map or the Map Psalter is a small mappa mundi from the 13th century, now in the British Library, found in a psalter (London, British Library MS Additional 28681). No other records of psalters found from the Middle Ages have a ...

, the Jerome map and the map in the '' Liber Floridus''.

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