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As early as 8,000 b.c., we have evidence that the apple was highly valued and cultivated in the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Indus and Yellow River valleys. The apple has taken a prominent place in world mythos, often associated with magic, paradise, and the gifts of knowledge and sensual experience.
The pome fruit and tree of the apple is celebrated in numerous functions in Celtic mythology, legend, and folklore; it is an emblem of fruitfulness and sometimes a means to immortality. Wands of druids were made from wood either of the yew or of the apple.
There is Avalon, meaning Isle of Apples, from Arthurian legend, the land of the fairies and the dead that’s ruled over by Morgan le Fay. There is Merlin the magician, who lived and worked in a grove of apple trees, ingesting fruit from his orchard that gave him sight and the power of prophecy.
22 lis 2023 · The fruit of the tree of knowledge is often depicted as an apple, but the Hebrew Bible doesn’t actually name it as such. The apple originated in central Asia and so its familiarity may be one reason it became the focus of this story.
22 lip 2014 · DNA analysis indicates that apples originated in the mountains of Kazakhstan, where the wild Malus sieversii— the many-times great-grandparent of Malus domestica, the modern domesticated...
10 lut 2017 · Apples have a prominent place in world mythology, and are often associated with paradise, magic, knowledge and sensual experience. Legendary magician Merlin was said to carry a silver bough from an apple tree which allowed him to cross into the other worlds and to return to the land of the living.
In Greek mythology, the Apple of Discord (Ancient Greek: μῆλον τῆς Ἔριδος) was a golden apple dropped by Eris, the goddess of strife, at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. It sparked a vanity-fueled dispute among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite that led to the Judgement of Paris and ultimately the Trojan War. [1]
