Wood God

Wood Gods were tree spirits of the same species as wood nymphs, but were male in physical form. They inhabited and were spiritually tied to trees like oaks, elms, hollies, and rowans. Like the wood nymphs, they were capable of leaving their trees and assuming physical bodies or using their trees as their bodies. They also were spiritually bound to their trees, and die if their trees are cut down. One discription of wood god is given in Prince Caspian, in that the wood god of an oak tree would look like a wizened old man with warts and hair growing out of the warts. Wood Gods were seen in the coronation where King Frank I and Queen Helen became the First King and Queen of Narnia. Wood Gods were also mentioned where they aided the Old Narnians to fight the Telmarine army. The wood gods of the trees in Lantern Waste were slaughtered along with their wood nymph sisters when the Calormenes chopped down their trees during the Calormene Conquest.


 * Although in mythology, the only thing close to a male version of a nymph was a river god to a naiad, Lewis may have created the wood gods as his own creations, or perhaps he drew inspiration from the Green Man of Celtic Mythology.