[Talking to trees? Could trees talk? He'd have to ask Thoth. But she is right, she is doomed to perplex him. He thinks for a second and decides to tell her:] My elder brother, before I felled him, was the god of agriculture. He would help the humans to grow their crops. [Not the same but at least something they can almost have in common.]

Yes. Smaller ones. And ones with no arms or legs. Those are snakes. They can be dangerous themselves, filled with poison.