a is for apple. : abc project | 81

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The 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.

-- The Symbolism Dictionary

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