Word: pagans
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...like Greek gods who were the very rivers and streams they represented in myth, language itself is an inextricable, physical feature of Heaney's pagan world. This takes on a literal dimension in "Alphabets" (1987), where the letter A is "two rafters and a cross-tie" and the number 2 "a swan's neck and a swan's back...
...Thatcher nonetheless had no hesitation in giving him the nation's spiritual primacy, no doubt because she agrees with a preappointment editorial in the Economist that declared, "What is needed is an inspiring missionary leader for a church that has lost whatever grip it had on an increasingly pagan country." No bishop has been more enthusiastic in promoting the church's desperately needed "Decade of Evangelism" in the 1990s, and none seems better equipped to give it a go than Carey of Canterbury...
With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch, baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, whitebeam, tree of heaven...