Comments on: Apple: Fruit of the Gods http://socyberty.com/folklore/apple-fruit-of-the-gods/ Thu, 31 May 2012 13:26:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Random reader http://socyberty.com/folklore/apple-fruit-of-the-gods/comment-page-1/#comment-23611 Random reader Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:10:43 +0000 http://socyberty.com/folklore/apple-fruit-of-the-gods/#comment-23611 Geez-o-Pete, Chewtoy, lighten up! Not everyone believes what you do. It's an interesting, well-written piece. Geez-o-Pete, Chewtoy, lighten up! Not everyone believes what you do. It’s an interesting, well-written piece.

]]> By: Chewtoy http://socyberty.com/folklore/apple-fruit-of-the-gods/comment-page-1/#comment-23613 Chewtoy Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:40:19 +0000 http://socyberty.com/folklore/apple-fruit-of-the-gods/#comment-23613 Worthless article. The term "apple" was used as a generic term for all fruit (other than berries but including nuts) until the 17th C. The fruit in the garden of Eden is not mentioned in the Bible as an apple. It only became an apple after renaissance painters mixed imagery from Greek mythology into their work. <br /> <br /> Mythological apples have nothing everyday apples (Malus domestica) but a symbolic substitution of psycho-active Amanita muscaria mushrooms. These mushrooms (red as apples) grow on the roots of trees, therefore look like they have fallen from the tree, like a fruit. The healing and divinatory powers and the immortality aspect belong to the mushroom, not to its symbolic substitute. <br /> <br /> For more information read Carl P. Ruck's excellent book "Apples of Apollo". Worthless article. The term “apple” was used as a generic term for all fruit (other than berries but including nuts) until the 17th C. The fruit in the garden of Eden is not mentioned in the Bible as an apple. It only became an apple after renaissance painters mixed imagery from Greek mythology into their work.

Mythological apples have nothing everyday apples (Malus domestica) but a symbolic substitution of psycho-active Amanita muscaria mushrooms. These mushrooms (red as apples) grow on the roots of trees, therefore look like they have fallen from the tree, like a fruit. The healing and divinatory powers and the immortality aspect belong to the mushroom, not to its symbolic substitute.

For more information read Carl P. Ruck’s excellent book “Apples of Apollo”.

]]> By: lizzie2uk http://socyberty.com/folklore/apple-fruit-of-the-gods/comment-page-1/#comment-23609 lizzie2uk Mon, 28 May 2007 19:52:22 +0000 http://socyberty.com/folklore/apple-fruit-of-the-gods/#comment-23609 Interesting Interesting

]]>