ArchTale 32. Humanity IS the fruit

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Humanity and the fruit had become one.

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Phrygian

Nana, the daughter of the river Sangarius, saw the fruit of the tree and finding it beautiful placed it on her bosom. Cybele, caused the fruit to disappear in her lap changing it into a seed from which Nana became pregnant.

-Coleman. J. A. p. 111.

Tlingit, Native Americans of southern Alaska

There was a certain town in which many people were dying of sickness, but those who felt well used to play shinney on the beach every day. Then something came down through the air and one of them seized it and was dragged up from the ground. Another person grasped his feet, endeavoring to pull him back, but he, too, was carried up and another and another until there were ten. All of these were taken up out of sight. The next day the same thing came down a second time, and ten more were carried off. This happened every day until all the men in the town were gone. Next it came to a woman, and all the women were carried away in the same manner except two. These two women now walked along the beach calling for help. They did not know whither their friends had gone. And every day they went up into the forest after roots. One day, after they had gone up into the woods, one of these women began swallowing root-juice, and it formed a child in her.

-Swanton J R. pp.41-42

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In these excerpts we see the human maiden taking into herself the produce of the tree and in doing so she becomes one with that produce. With divine imput from The-Seed of The-Man she conceives.

Iceland

Much wealth won in war gat Rerir to himself, and wedded a wife withal, such as he deemed meet for him, and long they lived together, but had no child to take the heritage after them; and ill-content they both were with that, and prayed the Gods with heart and soul that they might get them a child. And so it is said that Odin hears their prayer, and Freyia no less hearkens wherewith they prayed unto her: so she, never lacking for all good counsel, calls to her her casket-bearing may, the daughter of Hrimnir the giant, and sets an apple in her hand, and bids her bring it to the king. She took the apple, and did on her the gear of a crow, and went flying till she came whereas the king sat on a mound, and there she let the apple fall into the lap of the king; but he took the apple and deemed he knew whereto it would avail; so he goes home from the mound to his own folk, and came to the queen, and some deal of that apple she ate. So, as the tale tells, the queen soon knew that she big with child.

-The Story of the Volsungs

American Indians of the North West

Raven changed himself into a leaf growing on a bush near the old fisherman’s home. When the fisherman’s daughter came to pick berries from the bush the leaf fell off of its twig. It fell down and entered into her body and she was pregnant.

-Burland. C. pp 39-49.