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Therefore, Indra created twelve of these special Nariphon trees. The trees would bear fruit whenever she went out to collect food and distract the men. 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.
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(Chinese mythology) Pomegranate (also Fruit of the Dead in Greek mythology), believed to have sprung from the blood of Adonis. It was the rule of the Moirai that anyone who consumed food or drink in the underworld had to spend eternity there. Persephone ate six pomegranate seeds while in the Underworld after becoming Hades' wife, so she had to ...
Awakening: The Skyward Castle is the fourth game in the Awakening series. [24] The game is available in a Collector's Edition and a Standard Edition, both released in 2012 on Big Fish Games . In this game, Princess Sophia finally learned the whereabouts of her missing people and, with the aid of a winged unicorn and her pet pocket dragon ...
In Roman and Greek mythology, Carpus (/ ˈ k ɑːr p ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Καρπός, romanized: Karpos, lit. 'fruit') is a minor character associated with fertility and springtime. Similarly, Karpo, one of the Horae, is the feminine equivalent of Karpos; her dominion being the fruits of the earth.
'Fruit of wisdom'), also rendered Gnana Palam, is the name of a divine fruit in Hindu mythology. It is associated with the myth of Murugan and Ganesha participating in a contest, and the former's sacred abode of Palani. [1] Presented by the sage Narada to Shiva, the jnana palam is regarded to have possessed the elixir of wisdom. In some ...
"Jinjenju" (人面樹) from the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Toriyama Sekien. Jinmenju or Ninmenju (Chinese: 人面樹; pinyin: Rénmiànshù; Japanese: 人面樹 [にんめんじゅ、じんめんじゅ]; lit. 'human-faced tree') is a type of Yōkai and Yaoguai in Japanese and Chinese folklore.
The fruit is intermediate in size between a lemon and a grapefruit, 5–12 cm (2– 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter with a rounded shape and thick, reddish husk. [7] In mature fruits, the juice obtained by compressing the seeds yields a tart flavor due to low pH (4.4) and high contents of polyphenols, [21] which may cause a red indelible stain on ...