THE TREE AND THE TERMITE HILL

Beside the simple conical structure of the spirit house we can see also the ant mound which is also a kind of proto temple, coming up from the ground itself, and representing the energies of nature that are also essential for the fertility of the land. In fact these spirit homes are like the Kshetra pala structures that we find in the villages of Karnataka, that are also often connected with anthills, and represent the presence of primal energies of the wild.