The '''Trees of the Sun and the Moon''' are two legendary trees [[Alexander the Great in legend|associated with Alexander the Great]]. The earliest known account of the trees is found in the apocryphal ''[[Letter of Alexander to Aristotle]]'', where it takes up about a quarter of the text.<ref name=YO>{{citation |author=Yu Onuma |title=Trees of the Sun and the Moon: Variety of the Motif with Special Reference to The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle and Mandeville's Travels |journal=Geibun Kenkyu |year=2003 |volume=85 |pages=127–153}}.</ref>
The Tree of the Sun is male and that of the Moon female. They foretell the future in [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]] and [[Languages of the Indian subcontinent|Indian languages]]. In response to Alexander's queries, they tell him that he will become lord of the world, but also that he will die by poisoning in Babylon the next year. His mother will die miserably, but his sister will have a happy life.<ref name=YO/>
The trees are depicted on the [[Ebstorf map]], the [[Psalter world map]], the [[Jerome map]] and the map in the ''[[Liber Floridus]]''.<ref name=YO/>
==See also== *[[Two Trees of Valinor#Trees of Sun and Moon]]
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[[Category:Alexander the Great in legend]]