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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 ...
He equates the fruit, the seeds of which produce Argan oil, with Plato's account of Atlantean fruits "which afford liquid and solid food and unguents", and proposes that the trees' almost reptilian-scale like bark and thorns may have inspired the mythical guardian dragon of the golden apples, Ladon.
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.
The Food of the Gods on Olympus (1530), majolica dish attributed to Nicola da Urbino. In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (/ æ m ˈ b r oʊ z i ə,-ʒ ə /, Ancient Greek: ἀμβροσία 'immortality') is the food or drink of the Greek gods, [1] and is often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it. [2]
The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
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.
Kalpataru, the divine tree of life being guarded by mythical creatures at the 8th century Pawon temple, a Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia. Kalpavriksha [note 1] (Sanskrit: कल्पवृक्ष, lit. 'age tree', Kalpavṛkṣa) is a wish-fulfilling divine tree in religions like Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.