Pomegranates...

[msfledermaus]

I was just Googling the history of the pomegranate just now, since I was having an arguement with a cow-irker about it's signifigance in ancient cultures. (I've got one with my lunch, and the subject came up.) Hehheh. I love me some Google...

*eats seven seeds*

Ah, drat, now I've guaranteed that it's going to snow, haven't I? Sorry, Demeter...

Comments

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

*giggle* "sorry, demeter"~
you're hiLARious in such a great way~
*mwa*

ps:mmmmm pomegranates. i love.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I'd share if I could--takes forever to finish one:)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Pomegranates are like that, I find:D

The early history of pomegranates

[banana.livejournal.com]

It is believed that all pomegranates are descended from a single tree in the African rift valley. Analysis of DNA in modern pomegranate populations have suggested that they then spread through the middle east into Europe where they first co-existed with and then replaced the Neandergranate population. Their colonisation of the globe was only completed when small numbers crossed from Siberia to Alaska, eventually spreading as far as South America where they formed huge pyramids, a great sacrifice for them.

The now familiar staining of cave walls has only recently been accepted as the work of neolithic Punica granatum, as archaeologists did not at first believe that early pomegranates were capable of hunting bison, never mind depicting the resulting kills so accurately simply with their juice.

Pomegranates are renowned in Greek mythology as the fruit that launched a thousand pips. In the Odyssey the hero Odysseus escapes from the cave of the cyclops by tying himself to the underside of a pomegranate, and a pomegranate's heel remains to this day its most vulnerable spot.