Symbolizes the victory. Mean solar start rejoicing, honesty, honor. As the tree grows always straight, - a blessing, triumph, victory. "; Never dropping leaves, palm tree is decorated with constantly the same green. Such force that tree people believe appropriate and suitable for the image of victory "; Plutarch. It is also the tree of life, and being self-perpetuating, it is identified with the androgyne. As a phallic symbol palm means virility and fertility, but if it is portrayed with dates, the symbol of the feminine, "; Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes "; Canticles. Palma brings good fruit in old age, symbolizes longevity and prosperity in old age. Arabia: The Tree of Life. China: avoiding Affairs, dignity, fertility. Christianity: The righteous man who "; It shall blossom as the palm tree "; immortality, and in this sense it is sometimes depicted together with Phoenix; divine blessing, the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem; triumph over the death of a martyr; paradise. Palm branches represent the glory, triumph, resurrection, victory over death and sin. In early Catholicism, she was a symbol of burial, as well as "; attribute of the person making the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, hence the word "; pilgrim "; The emblem of St. Peter's reclusive, portrayed with a palm branch in his hand, and many martyrs. Palm initially "; palm "; Sunday commemorates Christ's entry into Jerusalem. Egypt: "; calendar "; wood, giving a new branch once a month. Greece emblem of Apollo at Delphi and the Delian. Jewish tradition the righteous, the emblem of Judea after the Exodus. Sumerian-Semitic tradition: The Tree of Life, the emblem of the Phoenician Baal Tamar, the Lord of Palms, as well as Astarte and Assyrian-Babylonian Ishtar.