Pomona

Pomona was the Roman goddess of fruit trees. The name is derived from the Latin word pomum ( " tree fruit ", " fruit fruit ").

A feast of Pomona is not used in the calendars, but there was a Flemish Pomona, the Flemish Pomonalis, one of the twelve flamines minores, which speaks for both age and importance of the cult. The Pomonal, the Sanctuary of Pomona, was located between Rome and Ostia in the carrier Solonius.

In the myth, she was the wife of the god Vertumnus. The design of the Sage by Ovid became a popular subject of many painters of the modern era. In this story, Vertumnus sneaks in the form of a wizened old man in a shy Pomona, which has only the grafting of trees in mind and nothing like that of men. He cuddles with her for a while and then refers to an elm tree that is entwined by a plentiful grape -bearing vine, and says that this tree without the vine stand alone and no one find occasion to see him, were it not for the grapes of the vine. Reversed: What would the vine without the tree to which they cling and may have grown up in him, and he gives her protection and reliable grip? Then he accuses her of that they take on the vine any example and any candidate scorn, and finally begins the praises of Vertumnus to sing what it was for a noble soul, loyal, beautiful and educated, a God at that and so further. When he finally shows himself in his true form, Pomona is entranced by the flood of his eloquence so that they can muster no more resistance for his assault.

Another legend makes it the wife of Picus: for her sake he dismisses the sorceress Circe and is transformed by this punishment in a woodpecker. In the version of Picus story in Ovid the nymph Canens is the wife of Picus.

In allegories of the four seasons Pomona embodies the autumn. Their attributes are Hippe and cornucopia.

The coat of arms of the city of Pomezia in the province of Rome shows the Pomona.