Towards the end of his travels; Eskandar; or Alexander the Great; came to a town at the edge of the world. The local curiosity was a tree with two trunks of talking heads; the male trunk spoke by day and the female at night. Intrigued; Eskandar visited the tree and heard a voice prophesying his death.

He is shown here standing before the tree in bewilderment; his finger to his lips. The tree's mystical qualities are emphasized by the assortment of human and animal heads.