Sacred ch'hala tree grove

"In the center, the Tarasin had erected a kind of alter or monument. They said they did not worship there, but instead set up the monument as a celebration of life in the forest."

- Reidi Artom

The Sacred ch'hala tree grove of the Tarasin laid deep in the forests of Cularin. At the time of Reidi Artom's exploration of Cularin, there were about forty ch'hala trees in the grove, and by 31 BBY, there were almost thirty more. There was a stone in the middle of the grove, commemorating the time when the Tarasin began living in irstats. The stone predated the grove.

At least once in their lives, each Tarasin religious leader would make a pilgrimage to the sacred grove. They would return home with the cutting of a ch'hala tree, to plant near their irstat.

Though the grove was not stronger in the Force than any other source of life, sometimes jedi from the Almas Academy would go there to meditate. The isolation of the grove was calming and the flowing patterns on the ch'hala trees was almost hypnotic.