The Pillar or Dolmen is continually linked with sacred trees, and the association forms a part of Druidical worship.
In the cult of Asherah it might be either a living tree or an artificially constructed pole or post before which the Canaanites placed their altars.
The Tower is an outgrowth of the pillar and the Round Towers of Ireland, supposed by some to have been built by Persian refugees, and attributed by others to the Gynosophists, a society founded on Buddhism and driven out of India by the Brahmins, probably belonged to this form of worship.
