Magical Fruits: Gifting Immortality and Love, with a side of Death

Happy Thanksgiving! Deep dive with your Sirens on the history of fruit in mythology from around the world... which mostly involves some kind of death. It'll make you think twice about that fruit bowl! 

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Music by Donald Guzzi & Artwork by Alexis Torres

Links to research:

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fruit-mythology
• https://www.onmanorama.com/food/features/2020/06/30/mythical-tales-fruit.html
• https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/surprising-pomegranate-facts#:~:text=Symbol%20of%20death%20and%20fertility&text=It%20also%20prominently%20featured%20in,in%20Ancient%20Greece%20and%20Rome.
• https://www.alimentarium.org/en/fact-sheet/pomegranate-miracle-fruit#:~:text=Pomegranates%20have%20diverse%20cultural%2Dreligious,in%20Greek%20and%20Persian%20mythology.
• https://www.worldhistory.org/Idunn/
• https://www.nps.gov/npsa/learn/historyculture/sinatuna.htm
• https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/food/the-story-of-the-strawberry/
• https://www.nativerootsde.org/blog/strawberries#:~:text=Strawberries%20are%20a%20traditional%20Indigenous,said%20she%20was%20never%20returning.
• https://mythcrafts.com/2019/07/25/strawberries-the-fruits-of-love/
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/pantao
• https://archive.shine.cn/district/jinshan/Peach-of-immortality-in-Chinese-mythology/shdaily.shtml
• https://www2.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=timelines
• https://academics.nsuok.edu/Portals/39/Three%20Sisters%20Legend.pdf
• https://thegardenstrust.blog/2023/06/10/the-garden-of-the-hesperides/
• https://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Eris.html
• https://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/kekalahea/spring-2023/march/origin-of-hawaiian-plants
• https://deeprooted.co/blogs/religious-and-cultural-significance-of-mango
• https://ima.princeton.edu/2019/11/18/digging-into-the-horn-of-plenty/