Thread: What connects pomegranates and poppies? Well obviously shape...But also the fact that these two plants are associated with Demeter (poppies) and her daughter Persephone (pomegranates)...The goddesses of grain... 
Persephone, deified grain and grain planting season, gets taken by Hades to the underworld (planted) in Oct/Nov...
Persephone gets reunited with her mother, Demeter, deified grain and grain harvest season, during the grain harvest in (Apr/May)...
Persephone gets reunited with her mother, Demeter, deified grain and grain harvest season, during the grain harvest in (Apr/May)...
Pomegranates are ready for harvest when opium poppies and grain are planted (Oct/Nov)...
Which is why Persephone's sacred plant, apart from grain, is pomegranate...
Which is why Persephone's sacred plant, apart from grain, is pomegranate...
https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1263438785091698688
Pomegranates flower (Apr–Jun), when grain and opium poppies are ready for harvesting...
Which is why Demeter's sacred plant, apart from grain, was opium poppy...
Which is why Demeter's sacred plant, apart from grain, was opium poppy...
https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1410720047450951691
Well, it wasn't just Demeter who loved poppies...Grain goddess with poppies Anatolia
https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1411271598968086530
So pomegranate and poppies are two opposite plant calendar markers, marking beginning of "old" winter, cool, wet half of the year (pomegranate, Persephone), and the beginning of the "old" summer, hot, dry half of the year (poppy, Demeter)...
I think this is quite cool...
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