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Orchards and Vineyards
She brings growth and abundance to crops and fields, harvest and fruition through hard work. Her name means "apple."
Pomona's passion is for cultivated countryside. A Goddess of comfort and plenty, she symbolizes autumn harvest. Apples everywhere are associated with goddess worship. An apple cut sideways reveals a Roman star of knowledge. Her name comes from the Latin for apple, pomum. Roman banquets went "from eggs to apples," as a final invocation of Pomona's good will.
"I am the ancient Apple-Queen
As once I was, so am I now.
Fore evermore a hope unseen,
Betwixt the blossom and the bough.
Ah, where's the river's hidden Gold!
And where the windy grave of Troy?
Yet come I as I came of old,
From out thd heart of Summer's joy."
-- Pomona by William Morris
6 ¼" resin statue, alabaster color finish. #POM
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