Cypress
Its wood has been sacred since antiquity, as with it was used to build the Ark of Noah and part of the temple of Solomon.
The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the English-speaking world, particularly in England. The school is divided into subunits called 'houses' and each student is allocated to one house at the moment of enrollment. Houses may compete with one another at sports and maybe in other ways, thus providing a focus for group loyalty.
El sistema de la casa es una característica tradicional de las escuelas en el mundo de habla inglesa, en particular en Inglaterra. La escuela está dividida en subunidades llamado "casa" y cada estudiante es asignado a una casa en el momento de la inscripción. Casas pueden competir el uno con el otro en deportes y quizás de otras maneras, proporcionando así un foco para el grupo la lealtad.
Its wood has been sacred since antiquity, as with it was used to build the Ark of Noah and part of the temple of Solomon. It was worshiped in the kingdom of Sheba. Cypress is the tree that symbolizes the union between Heaven and Earth. Since ancient times, it has been considered as a symbolic religious tree and is also called 'The Tree of Life' for its long life and perennial greenery. In Greece and Rome, this tree was related to the divinities of hell and was related to the cult of Pluto or Hades. It was also associated to the God of medicine, Aesculapius or Asclepius, with Saturn or Cronus, God of time and with Apollo, for its cup in the form of flame. It was said that the cypress had the virtue to repel spells.