A Mugumo tree looks like any other tree, save for its humongous size and the myths that revolve around it. It is believed that going around it seven times changes your sex; we are yet to find someone with first-hand experience regarding that belief. The tree is also known as a strangler fig tree since it makes a home on another tree until the host tree eventually runs out of air, food, and space. Once this happens, the tree is pushed out of the ecosystem and it dies a natural death. The Mugumo tree then thrives and it unapologetically grows stronger and mightier.

I guess it is only natural to want to overshadow every other thing with similar characteristics. Simply put, all living things have this desire to become the one and only, to receive preferential treatment; the pursuit of exclusivity if you will. Not only is this desire common with things and people living on earth, and here’s why I say so. In the Bible, God sees to it that the men and women he inspired to write the book use a capital G when writing about him. Additionally, he gives the Israelites Ten Commandments, cast on stone (sic) and one of these commandments asks these people to worship no other God but him. Let us not even get started on how that remotely suggests the existence of other gods. Point is, that God wants us to focus all our attention and energy on Him and only Him. He gets jealous. Maybe God is a woman.