Subject: Why Sycamores?
From: rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu
Date: 1991-06-25, 13:53
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Has anyone figured out the significance of sycamores as the trees forming the
Glastonbury Grove?
The TP Access Guide says they are Doug Firs.
Druids, who are an obvious choice for the hooded ones, favored oaks and the
mistletoe that grows in them.
The famous tree at the actual Glastonbury is a hawthorne.
The famous ygdrysyl (spelling?) was an ash.

All I have been able to find so far is that 
1) sycamore and hawthorne are the favorites for decking thresholds or planting
out front of houses for may day celebrations in the area around Glastonbury,
though apparently not in groves. (Groves associated with druidism were oaks).
2) a different tree (a fig, actually) by the same name was favored by egyptians
for making coffins, probably due to its association with Osirus (?).
3) supposedly a sycamore figures in the holy family's flight to egypt.

-Rich Haller