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Sher
Unregistered User
(10/31/02 8:28:33 am)
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Pomegranates in myths and fairy tales
I'm researching pomegranate as symbol, seeking cross-cultural, ancient and contemporary references. Thanks.
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nekoi
Registered User
(10/31/02 8:33:11 am)
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Re: Pomegranates in myths and fairy tales
The biggest ones off the top of my head: Persephone/Kore and the Biblical myth of Adam and Eve.
I think there was a thread on apples awhile back; try searching for it b/c we talked about pomegranates there too.
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Kerrie
Registered User
(10/31/02 8:53:50 am)
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Old posts...
Here are some old posts re: pomegranates:
www.surlalunefairytales.c...queen.html
www.surlalunefairytales.c...s_pg3.html
www.surlalunefairytales.c...fable.html
Hope this helps!
Forest frosts,
Kerrie
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Sher
Unregistered User
(10/31/02 9:06:37 am)
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Pomegranates in myths and fairy tales
Thank you for the citations of earlier discussions about pomegranates--very helpful. I'm curious about one reference made to the Virgin Mary and pomegranates. Where could I search for further information on that linkage?
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eearth
Unregistered User
(11/1/02 12:32:54 pm)
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Pomegranates
There's a nice piece on pomegranates and what they mean in Greek culture in Patricia Storace's book, Dinner with Persephone.
I think they're associated not only with knowledge of death but with sexuality -- the many seeds, the red color that stains, and so on.
Have a look at Eavan Boland's wonderful poem, "The Pomegranate," in which she weaves the story of Demeter and Persephone together with her own experiences as a mother and a daughter. Her own daughter has a pomegranate on a plate in her room, and the mother realizes it represents knowledge, and a kind of knowledge that the daughter has to come to on her own. It's something that her mother can't -- and won't -- protect her from learning.
Elise
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Kerrie
Registered User
(11/1/02 1:24:44 pm)
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Poems and Pome-granates...
Speaking of poems, one of my favorites is Wendy Froud's poem, "Persephone or, Why the Winters Seem to Be Getting Longer," found on the Endicott Studio site:
www.endicott-studio.com
in the Coffee House section. I think it was first printed in _Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers_ edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow.
Forest frosts,
Kerrie
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Celestial
Registered User
(11/3/02 4:32:57 pm)
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Christian
In the Christian tradition, the pomegranate symbolizes the boundless love of the Creator.
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