general themes like trees and gardens? in what way, and in what works, are these things themes? Christian mythology shares a lot of common ideas with other myt

general themes like trees and gardens? in what way, and in what works, are these things themes? Christian mythology shares a lot of common ideas with other mythology, according to scholars. The Garden of Eden was a paradisiacal forest where humans lived in harmony with nature, where the Tree of Life gave them immortality, so long as they ignored the Tree of Knowledge (at peril of being cast out). In Avatar, the Na'vi live in harmony with nature in a paradisiacal forest with a Great Tree, afforded quasi-immortality by 'spiritual-uplink' to the tree, and in the complete absence of technology. Then along come the evil, technologically advanced humans who of course have been cast out of their own paradisiacal habitat (or destroyed it). It doesn't sound like the loosest connect ever to me. one of the characters is called 'Grace Augustine'