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Desert Plant

Explore 1 desert plant entries and compare their symbolic meanings across named religious, mythic, folkloric, and modern spiritual traditions.

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Succulent · Desert Plant

Agave

Agave

A rosette-forming American succulent associated in central Mexico with fertility, sustenance, pulque, sacrifice, and the many gifts of a demanding landscape.

Aztec religionFertility, nourishment, pulque, and transformed sacrifice

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