How Do You Like Them Apples?: Difference between revisions

** In Islam, the forbidden fruit is traditionally wheat. This has interesting implications, placing the Fall of Mankind with the agricultural revolution. [[Jean Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]] [[Rousseau Was Right|would be pleased]], as he had much the same opinion.

** Some have also proposed the passionfruit. On the one hand, it just ''sounds'' so much more tempting than a plain old apple. On the other, it makes a clever call forward to Jesus, who had to basically [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] in the garden.

* Greek myth has all food in the underworld serve similar to Biblical [[Forbidden Fruit]], and of course only fruit become story-relevant. Eating it dooms you to never being able to leave; Hades tricks Persephone into becoming his wife this way. She ate between three and seven pomegranate seeds and has to spend that same number of months out of the year with Hades, the rest she spends above ground with her [[Overprotective Dad|Overprotective]] <s>dad</s> Mom—who ''[[Just-So Story|causes winter]]'' every year out of grief when her daughter's gone. (Note that not only does 'pome-granate' mean 'seeded apple', but considering [[Freud Was Right|other]] Greek myths, this is probably some kind of euphemism.)

* Chinese myth, in ''[[Journey to the West]]'', features ''peaches'' of immortality, but they take several centuries to ripen.