Origin And Meaning of Apple Cults
Origin And Meaning of Apple Cults
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Plate V Uncertain (Town) of Crete.
Silver. Fourth Century B. C.
/Eginetic standard Stater.
Obverse. Reverse Male figure, naked to waist, seated Apollo, seated r. Head facing, amid r. Amid branches of a tree ; he sup- the branches of a laurel ; he holds ports himself with r. , while he holds lyre in 1. , and plektron in r. Large wreath in extended 1.
If we assume that the tree on the obverse is identified with the tree on the reverse, and that the god in the tree is the same on both sides, ORIGI...N AND MEANING OF APPLE CULTS 35 then we have to call the god Apollo, and the tree a bay-tree. Analogy with the coins of Gortyna and Phaestos suggests that he is in the tree as a part of a cult for fertility. The difficult point is to determine what possible object there could be in fertilising a bay-tree. Has the bay- tree displaced some earlier form ? There is much to favour this be- lief : we have shown in the Lecture on Apollo in the book called The Ascent of Olympus, that at Delphi, where Apollo has his own way with regard to trees and the like, the laurel was not primitive, for, as Ovid pointed out in describing the fight of Apollo with the python, nondum laurus erat : and Apollo found his victor's wreath in a neighbouring oak.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Plate V Uncertain (Town) of Crete.
Silver. Fourth Century B. C.
/Eginetic standard Stater.
Obverse. Reverse Male figure, naked to waist, seated Apollo, seated r. Head facing, amid r. Amid branches of a tree ; he sup- the branches of a laurel ; he holds ports himself with r. , while he holds lyre in 1. , and plektron in r. Large wreath in extended 1.
If we assume that the tree on the obverse is identified with the tree on the reverse, and that the god in the tree is the same on both sides, ORIGI...N AND MEANING OF APPLE CULTS 35 then we have to call the god Apollo, and the tree a bay-tree. Analogy with the coins of Gortyna and Phaestos suggests that he is in the tree as a part of a cult for fertility. The difficult point is to determine what possible object there could be in fertilising a bay-tree. Has the bay- tree displaced some earlier form ? There is much to favour this be- lief : we have shown in the Lecture on Apollo in the book called The Ascent of Olympus, that at Delphi, where Apollo has his own way with regard to trees and the like, the laurel was not primitive, for, as Ovid pointed out in describing the fight of Apollo with the python, nondum laurus erat : and Apollo found his victor's wreath in a neighbouring oak.
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