Golden apple
The golden apple is an element that appears in various national and ethnic
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Greek mythology
Golden apples appear in three Greek myths:
Atalanta and Melanion
A huntress named Atalanta who raced against a suitor named
Though abandoned by her father as an infant, Atalanta became a skilled hunter and received acclaim for her role in the hunt for the Calydonian boar. Her father claimed her as his daughter and wished to marry her off. However, Atalanta was reluctant to marry due to a prophecy that marriage would be her downfall. Because of her beauty, she gained a number of suitors and finally agreed to marry, but under the condition that her suitor was obligated to beat her in a footrace. Competitors who failed to beat her would be put to death. As Atalanta could run extremely fast, all her suitors died.
Realizing that Atalanta could not be defeated in a fair race, Melanion prayed to Aphrodite for help. The goddess gave him three golden apples and told him to drop them one at a time to distract Atalanta. Sure enough, she quit running long enough to retrieve each golden apple. It took all three apples and all of his speed, but Melanion finally succeeded, winning the race and Atalanta's hand.
Eventually they had a son
Paris and the Trojan War
Hera and the Hesperides
Hera's sacred tree, given to her as gift from Zeus, grows apples made entirely of gold. The dragon Ladon was sent to guard it from anyone who might try to steal the apples.
Irish mythology
The role of the Golden Apple is far more minor and less specific in Irish lore, mostly because it is an element of the Silver Branch, or Silver Bough, symbol that is connected to the Celtic Otherworld.
Apple branch
The silver branch with golden apples is owned by the Irish
There has been offered for comparison "silver branch of the sacred apple-tree bearing blossoms" encountered by
Oidheadh Chloinne Tuireann
In the
Music
In
In
Fairy tales
Many European fairy tales begin when golden apples are stolen from a king, usually by a bird:
- "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf" (Russian)
- "The Golden Bird" (German)
- "The Golden Mermaid" (Romanian)
- "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples" (Serbian)
- "Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples" (Romanian, where the thief is not a bird but a zmeu)
- "zmey)
- "The White Snake" (German)
Modern literature
The
- I will find out where she has gone
- And kiss her lips and take her hands;
- And walk among long dappled grass,
- And pluck till time and times are done
- The silver apples of the moon,
- The golden apples of the sun.
The
The Golden Apples is the name of Southern writer, Eudora Welty's, fourth short story collection, published in 1949. The stories are interrelated and center around the citizens of the fictional town of Morgana, Mississippi.
A golden apple plays a crucial role in the climax of David Mitchell's sixth novel The Bone Clocks, published by Random House in 2014.
Discordianism
The contemporary religion
Identity and use in other languages
Argan fruit
Michael Hübner has suggested that the fruit of the
Oranges
In many languages, the
In later years it was thought that the "golden apples" of myth might have actually been
One reason why oranges might be considered to be "magical" in so many stories is because they bear flowers and fruit at the same time, unlike other fruit.[citation needed]
Quinces
Frequently [dubious ], the term "golden apple" is used to refer to the quince, a fruit originating in the Middle East.[14]
Tomatoes
The tomato, unknown to the ancient world of the Greeks, is known as the pomodoro in Italian, meaning "golden apple" (from pomo d'oro).[citation needed]
Popular culture
Golden apples are also items that are featured in video games such as Minecraft,[15] Pokémon Mystery Dungeon,[16] Assassin's Creed, and Hello Neighbor.[17] In the TV-series Animated Tales of the World, the episode "The Tree with the Golden Apples" revolves around the golden apple-tree on an island. An old man asks three brothers to sail to the island and whoever brings him a golden apple gets his daughter's hand in marriage.[18]
The Golden apple made its appearance in the film
See also
- Apples and oranges
- Forbidden fruit
- Front Deutscher Äpfel
- Golden delicious
- The Golden Apples of the Sun
- Hesperidium
- Iðunn
- Jambudvīpa
Explanatory notes
- ^ This tale exists in several manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; i. e. Book of Ballymote, and Yellow Book of Lecan, as edited and translated by Stokes, in Irische Texts, III. i. 183–229; cf. Voy. of Bran, i. 190 ff.; cf. Le Cycle Myth. Irl., pp. 326–33.
- ^ Book of Fermoy version.
- ^ The "apples" are also of "red gold" in Standish H. O'Grady's version,[3] also reprinted in condensed form by Jacobs,[4] and in the retelling by Lady Gregory.[5]
References
- Stokes, Whitley, ed. (1891), "Echtra Cormaic i Tir Tairngiri ocus Ceart Claidib Cormaic"[The Tale of the Ordeals, Cormac’s Adventure in the Land of Promise, and the Decision as to Cormac’s Sword], Irische Texte, vol. 3, S. Hirzel, pp. 185–202 (text); 203–221 (translation); 222–229 (notes)
- ^ O'Curry, Eugene (1873). "Lecture XXXIV The Musical Branch". On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish. Vol. 3. Williams and Norgate. pp. 316–317.
- ^ O'Grady, Standish Hayes, ed. (1857), "Faghail Craoibhe Chormaic mhic Airt" [How Cormac mac Airt Got his Branch], Toruigheacht Dhiarmuda Agus Ghrainne, Or The Pursuit After Diarmuid O'Duibhne and Grainne, the Daughter of Cormac Mac Airt, King of Ireland in the Third Century, Transactions of the Ossianic Society 3, pp. 212–229
- ^ Jacobs, Joseph, ed. (1894). How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery. Illustrated by John D. Batten. London: David Nutt. pp. 204–209, notes p. 233.
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- ^ "Emain Ablach".
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(help) - ^ Hull (1901), pp. 437–438.
- ^ O'Curry, Eugene, ed. (1863), "The Fate of the Children of Tuireann ([A]oidhe Chloinne Tuireann)", Atlantis, IV: 188–189, 194–197
- ^ "Page 17-18". Principia Discordia. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
- ^ Hübner, Michael. "Circumstantial Evidence for Plato's Island Atlantis in the Souss-Massa plain in today's South-Morocco" (PDF). pp. 20–21.
- ^ Orange (Citrus sinensis [L.] Osbeck) Etymology, Gernot Katzer, Gernot Katzer Spice Pages, formerly University of Graz, February 3, 1999
- ^ Arnot, Sharon (April 26, 2004). "Quince, the 'Golden Apple'". Sauce Magazine.
- ^ "Golden Apple". Minecraft Wiki. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
- ^ "Food (Mystery Dungeon) - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia". bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
- ^ "Apple". helloneighbor.gamepedia.com. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ The Tree with the Golden Apples, retrieved 2019-11-09
- ^ "Shazam! Fury of the Gods ending explained". Digital Spy.