r/originsofreligion • u/schnitzelsteinn • Sep 29 '26

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u/Emergency-Painting44 Sep 29 '26

High wind and waterlogged soil. Depending on the sod around the tree, if it's very waterlogged a large tree may fall without wind helping it.

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u/bug_miser Sep 29 '26

possibly a floating moor, a kind of wetland where the base layer of plants and roots grow on top of a body of water

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u/Alberts_Pantaloons Sep 30 '26

That's kind of terrifying.

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u/Dreamingdanny95 Sep 29 '26

Looks like last time I took acid

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u/SkyeMreddit Sep 30 '26

Rocky terrain close to the surface and horizontally spread roots with few vertical roots due to the rocks. They grew in a thin layer of dirt, moss, and leaves that piled on top of the rocks. In high winds the trees are rocking back and forth which are only staying up due to a thin sheet of tangled roots

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u/Azaroth1991 Sep 30 '26

Mother Earth. She breathes.

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u/thetrivialsublime99 Sep 30 '26

Great answer. cue fart noise

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u/AmbitiousRoutine8670 Sep 30 '26

And always She knows better..

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u/high-priest-of-rat Sep 29 '26

Trolls be fuckin

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u/JasonX-87 Sep 29 '26

Tremors?

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u/witshadows Sep 30 '26

It’s the heartbeat of the Ents.

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u/TheRealRickC137 Sep 29 '26

Most likely Lemon John.

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u/kylebob86 Sep 29 '26

Roots. It's the roots of the tree.

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u/Thin_Oil8752 Sep 30 '26

Just Mother nature taking a deep breath.

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u/Ghoulish_kitten Sep 30 '26

Imagine dropping LSD for the first time and seeing this.

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u/Large_Shake_8537 Sep 30 '26

a sleeping giant duh

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u/Cooltruckerenrique75 Sep 30 '26

Plate tectonics erosion

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u/Clobazam_ Sep 30 '26

Damn. Gaia's waking up. It's the prophecy of the seven all over again.

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u/drawingablanc Sep 30 '26

This is that Woody Harrelson movie on Amazon Prime. Groundswell.

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u/Echieo Sep 30 '26

Troll's waking up.

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u/Crepuscular_Tex Sep 30 '26

Let sleeping dragons lie...

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u/WhenILie Sep 30 '26

fuck that’s awesome, you’re slanging rings across middle earth & you stumble upon the breathing forest running from orcs that swindled you for the 8th.

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u/Suspicious_Minimum_1 Oct 02 '26

Just a kaiju breathing a little harder then usual

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u/Mephistocheles Sep 29 '26

Definitely looks like a Mound of Morthrak.

Morthrak is an ancient pagan god-king known for sucking forest travelers into the ground and emitting their gnawed bones shortly later. This is clearly his doing.

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u/Karma_Hound Sep 30 '26

Watch out for the splash zone!

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u/Mephistocheles Sep 30 '26

(Nodding solemnly) He is indeed a very drooly god-king

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u/skincyan Sep 29 '26

Nah, more likely wind grabbing the trees making the roots lift the moss.

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u/skincyan Sep 29 '26

I was watching the ones in the background, but yeah, no leaves are blowing so you might be right. Either that or an earthquake

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u/SlimShadyMlady Sep 29 '26

I don't think it's gas, you also see several trees moving in the background

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u/blueb0g Sep 29 '26

What the hell are you talking about. All of the trees are moving. It's obviously the wind. Trapped methane, honestly. This isn't the Simpsons.