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The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between 5 and 10 m (16 and 33 ft) tall.. Rich in symbolic and mythological associations in many cultures, it is thought to have originated from Afghanistan and Iran before being introduced and exported to other parts of Asia, Africa, and Eur
Punica is a small genus of fruit-bearing deciduous shrubs or small trees in the flowering plant family Lythraceae.The better known species is the pomegranate (Punica granatum).
The front cover to The Pomegranate: A New Journal of Neopagan Studies (issue 17 portrayed).. The idea for The Pomegranate was initially developed by Fritz Muntean, a graduate student in religious studies at the University of British Columbia in Canada, who started the venture with his friend Diana Tracy, who was then living in Oregon in the United States. [1]
The thumb-sized ivory pomegranate measuring 44 millimetres (1.7 in) in height, bears an ancient Hebrew inscription that reads, depending on the point chosen as the beginning in the circular inscription, "Belonging to the Temple [literally 'house'] of YHWH, holy to the priests" or "Sacred donation for the priests of [or 'in'] the Temple [literally 'house'] of YHWH".
The Madonna of the Pomegranate is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist, Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni dei Filipepi (1445–1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli. [1] Botticelli was born and raised in Florence, where he spent a majority of his life as one of the most admired artists of the Florentine Renaissance .
The Anar Pari, or Pomegranate Fairy is an Indian folktale collected by Alice Elizabeth Dracott from Simla. The tale is a local form of tale type ATU 408, " The Love for Three Oranges ", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index .
The pomegranate is also placed as a symbol of decadence, luxury and sumptuousness, fitting for the great detail and descriptions found in the stories regarding luxury and aesthetics. In "The Young King" the titular character has a "Christlike appeal" and undergoes a spiritual transformation where he "receives and projects the light of God" into ...
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree is a historical novel by British Pakistani writer Tariq Ali, first published in 1992.The first of Ali's Islam quintet, a series of historical novels about the confrontations between Islamic and Christian cultures, this novel is set shortly after the reconquista of Kingdom of Granada in Muslim Iberia by the army of Ferdinand and Isabella in the late fifteenth ...