Golden apples hang in the garden of the Hesperides, those daughters of the west who are also the daughters of Atlas, as were the Pleiades. The golden apple is often associated with immortality, and is a perennial motif in many folk and fairy tales, from Armenia and Hungary to Ireland and Latvia. In traditional riddles and folk songs the Baltic Sun goddess Saulė was referred as the golden apple, and as René Guénon “the sun as ‘fruit of the Tree of Life’, is a fruit which is also expressly designated as a ‘golden apple’.” In a story known as The Death of the Sun Lord, and which appears in Polish Folklore and Myth by Joanne Asala, many thousands of years ago Svarog who was a mighty king had handsome son named Dazhbog. “Now it happened that both parents had the same extraordinary dream of a girl all dressed in red who came to them and said, ‘if you wish for your son to become the Sun Lord, let him go out into the world and search for the Tree of the Sun. When he has found it, let him pluck a golden apple from it and bring it home.” The golden apple also appears in connection with the sacred land of Shambhala, where, according to the occultist Ossendowski, the King of the World formerly appeared several times in both India and Siam, and ‘blessed the people with a golden apple with the figure of a lamb above it.” With its spherical shape, the apple has long been associated with completion, unity, love and fertility. .” Sacred to the Greek Apollo, and the Celtic Belenos, J.C Cooper explains that “the apple is of the tree of life, hence the immortality of the gods. In Nordic myth it is the fruit of Freya’s garden and also symbolised immortality. In Celtic tradition the apple, the silver bough, was the fruit of Avalon, the Land of Apples, and it had magic powers. An apple cut in half reveals a five-pointed star, a pentagram which is of course connected to Venus, the goddess of love, while her Greek counterpart Aphrodite was given a golden apple by Paris to indicate that she was the fairest goddess. #art #foryou #fyp #aliveart #brushandtaless #canvas #canvas #foryourpages #foryourpage #painting #artofnoticing #paint #impressionism - @brushandtaless