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An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree.
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- As a result, in the story of Adam and Eve, the apple became a symbol for knowledge, immortality, temptation, the fall of man into sin, and sin itself.
- Renaissance painters may also have been influenced by the story of the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides.
- The tree of the forbidden fruit is called "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" in Genesis 2:17, and the Latin for "good and evil" is bonum et malum.
- The origin of the popular identification with a fruit unknown in the Middle East in biblical times is found in wordplay with the Latin words mālum (an apple) and mălum (an evil), each of which is normally written malum.
- Though the forbidden fruit of Eden in the Book of Genesis is not identified, popular Christian tradition has held that it was an apple that Eve coaxed Adam to share with her.
- It took all three apples and all of his speed, but Hippomenes was finally successful, winning the race and Atalanta's hand.
- Hippomenes knew that he could not win in a fair race, so he used three golden apples (gifts of Aphrodite, the goddess of love) to distract Atalanta.
- She outran all but Hippomenes (also known as Melanion, a name possibly derived from melon, the Greek word for both "apple" and fruit in general), who defeated her by cunning, not speed.
- Atalanta, also of Greek mythology, raced all her suitors in an attempt to avoid marriage.
- An epigram claiming authorship by Plato states:
I throw the apple at you, and if you are willing to love me, take it and share your girlhood with me; but if your thoughts are what I pray they are not, even then take it, and consider how short-lived is beauty.
— Plato, Epigram VII
- To throw an apple at someone was to symbolically declare one's love; and similarly, to catch it was to symbolically show one's acceptance of that love.
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- The apple was thus considered, in ancient Greece, sacred to Aphrodite.
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- He awarded the apple to Aphrodite, thus indirectly causing the Trojan War.
- After being bribed by both Hera and Athena, Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta.
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- Paris of Troy was appointed to select the recipient.
- Three goddesses claimed the apple: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.
- In retaliation, she tossed a golden apple inscribed Καλλίστη (Kalliste, sometimes transliterated Kallisti, "For the most beautiful one"), into the wedding party.
- The Greek goddess of discord, Eris, became disgruntled after she was excluded from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
- For instance, in Greek mythology, the Greek hero Heracles, as a part of his Twelve Labours, was required to travel to the Garden of the Hesperides and pick the golden apples off the Tree of Life growing at its center.
- other than berries, including nuts, as late as the 17th century.
- One of the problems identifying apples in religion, mythology and folktales is that the word "apple" was used as a generic term for all (foreign) fruit,
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- Apples appear in many religious traditions, often as a mystical or forbidden fruit.
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- Davidson concludes that in the figure of Iðunn "we must have a dim reflection of an old symbol: that of the guardian goddess of the life-giving fruit of the other world."
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- the native varieties of apple trees growing in Northern Europe are small and bitter.
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- Davidson asserts that while cultivation of the apple in Northern Europe extends back to at least the time of the Roman Empire and came to Europe from the Near East,
- Further, Davidson notes that the potentially Germanic goddess Nehalennia is sometimes depicted with apples and that parallels exist in early Irish stories.
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- She states this may imply that the apple was thought of by Brúnarson as the food of the dead.
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- Further, Davidson points out the "strange" phrase "Apples of Hel" used in an 11th-century poem by the skald Thorbiorn Brúnarson.
- Rerir's wife's consumption of the apple results in a six-year pregnancy and the birth (by Caesarean section) of their son—the hero Völsung.
- when the major goddess Frigg sends King Rerir an apple after he prays to Odin for a child, Frigg's messenger (in the guise of a crow) drops the apple in his lap as he sits atop a mound.
- when the major goddess Frigg sends King Rerir an apple after he prays to Odin for a child, Frigg's messenger (in the guise of a crow) drops the apple in his lap as he sits atop a mound.
- Davidson also notes a further connection between fertility and apples in Norse mythology in chapter 2 of the Völsunga saga:
- Davidson also notes a further connection between fertility and apples in Norse mythology in chapter 2 of the Völsunga saga:
- who was acting as messenger for the major Vanir god Freyr in stanzas 19 and 20 of Skírnismál.
- Davidson notes a connection between apples and the Vanir, a tribe of gods associated with fertility in Norse mythology, citing an instance of eleven "golden apples" being given to woo the beautiful Gerðr by Skírnir,
- which may have had a symbolic meaning, and that nuts are still a recognized symbol of fertility in southwest England.
- that fruit and nuts (Iðunn having been described as being transformed into a nut in Skáldskaparmál) have been found in the early graves of the Germanic peoples in England and elsewhere on the continent of Europe,
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She points out that buckets of apples were found in the Oseberg ship burial site in Norway,
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