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In mythology and religion: What is "The Fruit of The Tree of Life"?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Tree of life...

    One of Hercules twelve trials was to pick the golden apples from the tree of life.

    Tree of knowledge...

    The apple is a common symbol. It is regarded as a symbol of sexuality, knowledge (hence giving the teacher an apple)

    The story of Adam and Eve the apple became a symbol for temptation, the fall of man into sin, and sin itself. "It is easier to bring the dead back to life than to live with a woman without endangering the soul" St Bernard proclaimed.

    If you cut an apple horizontally in half you will see a distinct pentagram. The flower of the apple tree has five petals...

    Avalon is "apple-land"

    The yule pig is roasted with an apple in it's mouth, to serve as a heart in the next life.

    Hera kept a magic apple garden...

    Scandinavians thought apples essential to Resurrection and places them in graves. Norse goddess Idun kept a magic apple-land in the west where the gods received the fruit that kept them deathless.

    Gravity was discovered when an apple fell on Newton...

    Halloween Apple games may have symbolized cheating death at a time when drowning a witch was popular. Of course the bucket your dunking them from could very well have been Cerridwen's cauldron, representative of the womb.

  • 1 decade ago

    No one knows. In the bible, the kind of fruit from the tree of life was not mentioned but one thing is true: it is a very special fruit that God forbade Adam and Eve to eat it. So, it could be an apple or any fruit.

    If you're asking about it in mythology you would expect lots of versions and creative imagination.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Book of Genesis, chapters 2 and 3, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Hebrew: ×¢Öµ×¥ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע) (and occasionally translated as the Tree of Conscience) was the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden (2:9) from which God directly forbade Adam (and by extension Eve) to eat (2:17). The other tree in the middle of the garden was the Tree of Life. Genesis 2:16 states that God allowed them to eat of the fruit of any other tree in the garden, which would include the Tree of Life. When Eve, and then Adam, ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge (3:6), after being tempted by a serpent (3:1–5), they became aware of their nakedness (3:7), and were banished from the garden and forced to survive through agriculture "by the sweat of [their] face" (3:19-24). They lost access to the Tree of Life, thus losing a chance at immortality.

    Fruit of the tree

    The Book of Enoch 31:4, purporting to be written by the antediluvian prophet Enoch, describes the Tree of Knowledge: "It was like a species of the Tamarind tree, bearing fruit which resembled grapes extremely fine; and its fragrance extended to a considerable distance. I exclaimed, How beautiful is this tree, and how delightful is its appearance!" In the Talmud, Rabbi Meir says that the fruit was a grape.[3] Another Talmudic tradition suggests that Eve actually made, and drank, wine.[4]

    Also in the Talmud, Rabbi Nechemia says that the fruit was a fig.[3]Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover themselves after eating the fruit (Genesis 3:7). Perhaps this was because the leaves were nearby, or perhaps it shows God creating the cure before the illness, i.e. the same tree that caused the problem was then used to remedy it. Another explanation lies within the "fruit" of the fig tree, the fig itself, which is not actually a fruit but rather a flower of sorts, serving as the tree's genitalia.

    Another Talmudic interpretation, expressed by Rabbi Yehuda, is that the fruit was wheat.[3]

    In Western Christian art, the fruit is most commonly depicted as an apple. One possible reason for this arises from a medieval pun. It was a source of humor to monks that the Latin word for evil was similar to the word for apple. Thus it was often said that by eating the malum (apple), Eve contracted malus (evil). There is, however, no textual or historical evidence by which to argue the literalness of this image.[citation needed]

    Ethno-botanists have proposed the iboga plant (Tabernanthe iboga) as the Tree of Knowledge. The bark of the root contains a dissociative substance, ibogaine, which has been traditionally used in Bwiti religious ceremony in Central Africa.[5] Other hallucinogens, in particular the Fly agaric mushroom, have also been proposed as the Tree.[c

  • 1 decade ago

    Religious scholars believe it was an apple, probably a delicious apple. The tree of life is what Adam and Eve were forbidden to take fruit from.

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  • 1 decade ago

    That is the fruit that God told Adam not to eat or he would be kicked out of Eden. Nobody knows exactly what kind of fruit it was though it is often portrayed as an apple.

  • 1 decade ago

    Apple

  • BAnne
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The ability to understand the difference between right and wrong.

  • 1 decade ago

    im not religiouse at all i called my mom who is and asked she said its the tree that god told adam and eve to not eat from or they would die in the garden of eden

  • 1 decade ago

    Human beings I would think and all other living creatures

    Source(s): My perception
  • 1 decade ago

    I think it was apples

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