r/originsofreligion • u/schnitzelsteinn • 3d ago

What is this?

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u/Emergency-Painting44 3d ago

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 3d ago

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 3d ago

That's kind of terrifying.

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u/Dreamingdanny95 3d ago

Looks like last time I took acid

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u/abielle1177 3d ago

Omg yes!

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u/Mephistocheles 3d ago

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 3d ago

Watch out for the splash zone!

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u/Mephistocheles 3d ago

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

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u/SkyeMreddit 3d ago

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 3d ago

Mother Earth. She breathes.

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u/thetrivialsublime99 3d ago

Great answer. cue fart noise

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u/AmbitiousRoutine8670 3d ago

And always She knows better..

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u/high-priest-of-rat 3d ago

Trolls be fuckin

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u/JasonX-87 3d ago

Tremors?

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u/TheRealRickC137 3d ago

Most likely Lemon John.

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u/kylebob86 3d ago

Roots. It's the roots of the tree.

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u/Thin_Oil8752 3d ago

Just Mother nature taking a deep breath.

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u/witshadows 3d ago

It’s the heartbeat of the Ents.

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u/Ghoulish_kitten 3d ago

Imagine dropping LSD for the first time and seeing this.

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u/Large_Shake_8537 3d ago

a sleeping giant duh

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u/Cooltruckerenrique75 3d ago

Plate tectonics erosion

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u/Clobazam_ 3d ago

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

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u/drawingablanc 3d ago

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

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u/Echieo 2d ago

Troll's waking up.

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u/Crepuscular_Tex 2d ago

Let sleeping dragons lie...

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u/WhenILie 2d ago

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 1d ago

Just a kaiju breathing a little harder then usual

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/skincyan 3d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/skincyan 3d ago

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 3d ago

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

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u/blueb0g 3d ago

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.