Apple
It is a complex symbol, with a variety of meanings and incorporated in a variety
of contexts. It can mean love, knowledge, wisdom, joy, death, and/or luxury. The
apple could be an erotic association with a woman's BREASTS,
with the core sliced in half representing the vulva. In Greek mythology, the apple
appears repeatedly; Hera received an apple as a symbol of fertility upon her engagement
to Zeus. The apple of the Garden of Eden, is the symbol of temptation and of original
sin. In secular terms, the apple functions as a symbol for the cosmos or totality,
due to its nearly perfect spherical shape.
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