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The fruits were all in the image of Indra's beautiful wife. The men took the fruits to their place of abode and, after making love to them, would sleep for four months and lose their powers. According to Thai folklore , since Vessantara and his family have died, the trees bear fruit daily, but the forest will disappear when the Buddha's ...
Lotus tree: A plant in Greek mythology bearing a fruit that causes pleasant drowsiness. Moly: A magic herb in Greek mythology with a black root and white blossoms. Raskovnik: A magic plant in Serbian mythology which can open any lock. Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A mythical plant supposed by medieval thinkers to explain the existence of cotton.
Pomona (/ p ə ˈ m oʊ n ə / ⓘ, [1] Latin: [poːˈmoːna]) was a goddess of fruitful abundance and plenty in ancient Roman religion and myth.Her name comes from the Latin word pomum, "fruit", specifically orchard fruit.
In the Pokémon franchise, Ho-Oh is a Legendary Pokémon based on a phoenix. The Kirby series, particularly in Kirby Super Star, features the titular phoenix-resembling bird and antagonist of its game mode, Dyna Blade, who launches an attack on Dream Land's crops, all with the later-revealed motive of feeding her chicks. Kirby puts himself to ...
[citation needed] The luan is sometimes referred as simurgh by western sinologists when they translate the Chinese term luan; however, they do not refer to the same bird creature [2] [3] and is therefore an inappropriate translation of the term. [1]: 255 It is also sometimes inappropriately translated as roc and phoenix.
Well, all we’ve seen so far is a blurry silhouette – and as we know well enough by now, silhouettes don’t represent characters accurately. Eiichiro Oda, Shonen Jump, Shueisha
The lotus tree (Ancient Greek: λωτός, lōtós) is a plant that is referred to in stories from Greek and Roman mythology.. The lotus tree is mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness, and which was said to be the only food of an island people called the Lotophagi or lotus-eaters.
Trees in Chinese mythology and culture tend to range from more-or-less mythological such as the Fusang tree and the Peaches of Immortality cultivated by Xi Wangmu to mythological attributions to such well-known trees, such as the pine, the cypress, the plum and other types of prunus, the jujube, the cassia, and certain as yet unidentified trees.