The cypress tree is a symbol of the goddess Diana.
The Roman goddess Diana is the goddess of hunting, virginity, childbirth, the moon, and natural environment. Her mother is Latona and her father is Jupiter. Her twin brother is Apollo, the god of the sun and music. Her tree is the Cypress and her animal is the Deer. Her Greek name is Artemis. She hunts with silver arrows with her friends, the nymphs, by her side. She is often showed with a crescent moon over her head.
Diana's most well known symbol is the moon.
Athena is a Greek goddess whose symbols were the owl and olive tree. The Roman's identified her with their goddess, Minerva.
The Palm tree is symbolic of Easter.
The olive branch became a symbol of the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena, after she gave the olive tree to the Athenians.
The goddess of the Hunt was Artemis (In Rome, it was Diana). She was also the goddess of the moon, childbirth, animals, virginity, and the Wild. Her symbols were a silver bow, silver arrows, a crescent moon, a bear, a stag, a falcon, and a cypress tree.
Selene: a moon or crescent moon Artemis: deer, bears, a cypress tree, dogs, birds, crescent moon, and a bow and arrow Hecate: paired torches, keys, and dogs Persephone: a torch
Artemis was the goddess of the hunt and the protector of women in childbirth. She hunted with silver arrows and loved all wild animals. Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Apollo. Her symbols include the cypress tree and the deer. Her Roman counterpart is Diana.
Athena's, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war.
Daphne, a patroness of Diana (Goddess of the Hunt), asked to be turned into a laurel tree after Apollo fell in love with her. She did not love him back and wished to remain an unmarried virgin, true only to Diana, for the rest of her life. Apollo pursued her and she finally begged the gods to be turned into the tree. Thus, to show his devotion, Apollo adopted the laurel tree as his sacred tree and wore the laurel leaves on his head as a crown.
The tree.
The symbolic meaning of the evergreen tree is varied depending on the area. Usually, this tree is seen as a symbol of hope when it is cold and snowy outside.