The apple is a symbol of perfection (due to its round shape), beauty, and divine gift.
In the biblical tradition, the apple is considered an attribute of paradise before the Fall and therefore acts as a symbol of joy.
During the festive New Year's meal, Jews eat an apple dipped in honey to ensure prosperity in the new year.
In Celtic mythology, the Isle of the Blessed Avalon takes its name from the Welsh afal, apple. Among the Slavs, the apple tree symbolizes prosperity.
In China, the apple was associated with peace. In addition, apples were associated with eternal youth and immortality.
The golden apples of the Hesperides gave eternal youth; a similar ability was attributed to the apples of the Scandinavian goddess Idunn (cf. rejuvenating apples in Russian folklore).
This is also an image of the world (the name of the power, the attribute of the supreme power - “sovereign apple”).
In Baltic mythology, the apple is a symbol of the setting sun, one of the forms of the goddess Saule.
Frederic Leighton The Golden Apples of the Hesperides 
The symbolism of the apple involves its color - red, symbolizing physical beauty. Since round shapes are associated with the feminine, the apple takes on sexual connotations; in shape it is similar to a woman’s breast (cf. in Greek mythology, the apple of Paris with the inscription “most beautiful”).
Paris was to present the golden apple to the most beautiful of the three goddesses. Each of the goddesses, trying to get this apple, promised Paris: Hera - power over Asia, Athena - military glory and victory, and Aphrodite - the most beautiful of mortal women, Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda. Paris, without thinking twice, gave the apple to Aphrodite. Thus, the foam-born became the most beautiful of the goddesses. 
In this regard, the apple can be interpreted broadly as an image of earthly desires; in Christianity it symbolizes temptation, seduction, forbidden fruit; apple in Latin is "malum", as in evil. The apple also bears the sign of Adam's fall. The apple tree itself - the emblem of original sin - is dedicated to the Roman goddess Ceres, who sends madness to people.
Boris Godunov introduced into tsarist use a power that at that time was called “apple” here and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The wedding ceremony included not only the presentation of the scepter, but also the orb: “This apple is a sign of your kingdom.
Just as you hold this apple in your hand, so hold the entire kingdom given to you by God, protecting it from enemies unshakably.”
Alexander Voronkov "Apple of Discord" 
But Godunov failed to fulfill this covenant. During the 16th-19th centuries, many luxurious powers were created.
The power of Mikhail Romanov's large outfit especially stood out. The combination of bright enamels and large precious stones creates a feeling of unusual luxury and pomp.
The apple is divided into two hemispheres. In the upper one, consisting of four parts, there is an image of scenes from the life of King David. The orb or apple was usually held in the right hand.
In the Song of Songs there are the following lines: “Under the apple tree I woke you up: there your mother gave birth to you, there your mother gave birth to you.”
The lines symbolize conception and birth. The connection between apple and apple tree is remarkable. The proverb “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” implicitly means that children are not far from their parents.
In Europe, potatoes were called "devil's apples." In Russia, an apple was placed on the grave of the deceased. An apple tree in blossom is a symbol of love. Lone gunman William Tell shoots at an apple located on a man's head.
This is where the expression “hit the bull’s eye” comes from, which is undoubtedly a sign of accuracy. 
Many love procedures involve manipulating an apple. For example, if at a favorable time you cut an apple in half, and put a note in the middle with the name of your beloved, tie the halves together, and put them in the sun, then when the apple begins to dry, the object of your love will feel more and more inclined towards you.
February 18th, 2012
Apples as they are
It means fertility, love, joy, knowledge, wisdom, deification and luxury, but at the same time deceitfulness and death. The apple was the forbidden fruit of the Golden Age. Being round, it represents wholeness and unity and is contrasted with the pomegranate, which is made up of many seeds. Like the fruit of the Tree of Life, Idu-my is given to the gods. Eris threw a golden apple of discord between the gods.
In ancient Greek mythology, there is a famous myth about Paris, who was supposed to give the golden apple to the most beautiful of the three goddesses. Each goddess, trying to get an apple, promises Paris a reward: Hera - power over Asia, Athena - military glory and victory, and Aphrodite - the most beautiful of mortal women, Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda. Paris gives the apple to Aphrodite and from then on Aphrodite becomes the most beautiful of the goddesses. Thus, the apple personifies the image of base desires.
Among the Greeks, the apple was dedicated to Venus as a sign of love and desire; wedding symbol representing a marriage proposal.
At the same time, the apple tree itself is dedicated to the Roman goddess Ceres, who sends madness to humans.
Apple tree branches are included in the attributes of Nemesis and Artemis. They are also used in rituals associated with Diana, where they are given to suitors as a prize in the midday mating running competitions (the winners of the night mating running competitions were awarded an olive branch). The apple of Dionysus was the quince.
Apple as a symbol of the Fall
In Christian symbolism, the apple personifies temptation, temptation, forbidden fruit. In Latin, apple is "malum", as well as evil. According to the biblical story, the apple symbolizes the fall of Adam when he ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge.
On the other hand, depicted with Christ or the Virgin Mary, it points to the new Adam and salvation.
A monkey with an apple in its mouth means the Fall.
= There is an opinion that Adam and Eve did not eat an apple, but simply the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The apple was invented by Dante in his Divine Comedy.
= Yes, you might think that an apple is an extremely harmful fruit. Because of it, Troy was destroyed, the sleeping beauty was poisoned with it, and, moreover, because of the apple, we all eke out a miserable existence on Earth, since our ancestor Eve chose a talking snake as a nutritionist consultant.
But nowhere in the Bible does it say what exactly Adam and Eve ate. The cause of the Fall is indicated as “fruit from the tree” (“...only of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, “You shall not eat it or touch it, lest you die,” Genesis 3:3). The Church independently designated the apple as a harmful fruit because of the same spelling of the Latin words “evil” and “apple.” But in fact, the fruit of sin from the tree in the center of heaven could be anything - from a pine cone to a coconut...
= "The serpent was more cunning than all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had created. And the serpent said to the woman: Did God truly say: You shall not eat from any tree in the garden? And the woman said to the serpent: We can eat fruit from the trees, only the fruit of the tree that in the midst of paradise, God said, “Do not eat them or touch them, lest you die.” And the serpent said to the woman, “No, you will not die, but God knows that on the day that you eat of them, your eyes will be opened, and you will You will be like gods, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes and desirable because it gives knowledge; and she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave it also to her husband, and he ate. "
Thus, the reason for the Fall was man’s desire to know good and evil, like the gods. And since man was originally created as an image and likeness, the reason for the Fall is in the essence of the human being - in his desire for knowledge, development, and improvement. So the Creator punished his Creation for creating him exactly like this... Our Creator generally does not burden himself with logic, as can be seen from the Bible...
In Judaism, an apple is a symbol of prosperity and during the New Year's meal, Jews eat an apple dipped in honey to ensure prosperity in the new year. In the Jewish tradition, the most common belief is that the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge were figs, or, as we usually call them, figs. There are other “candidates” to be considered the Tree of Knowledge, for example, banana (due to the size of the leaves), grapes (as the Jews explain, wine often causes trouble), and pomegranate. In addition, within the framework of Judaism, there are opinions that it was a nut or carob.
Most ancient Christian interpreters agree with the fact that Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the fig tree. At the same time, some scholars of the Holy Scriptures believed that it was an etrog - a citrus fruit that has indentations on the skin, or “Eve’s teeth.” However, some modern theologians express the opinion that the fruit in question is grapes. Moreover, in contrast to the “Jewish theory,” where grapes are associated with troubles, Christians see in them a symbol of Christ and the sacrament of Communion. The sad consequences of eating the fruit came from the fact that people arbitrarily tried to appropriate the gift of perfect knowledge of the world and God, i.e. they simply wanted to steal this gift from God.
In cultures formed under the influence of Islam, there is a widespread theory that the paradise fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is the peach. However, not all Muslims think so. For example, in the town of Al-Qurna in southern Iraq, where, according to biblical legend, the tabernacles of paradise were located, an ancient trunk of a jujube tree, which locals call nabuk, is kept. Residents are convinced that it was the small yellow fruit of this tree that caused the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. In Al-Qurna, the Tree of Adam is considered a local landmark.
However, the apple “version” remains the most common. Why? This idea developed in the Western European culture of the Middle Ages and only later, together with examples of European art, migrated to Russia. During the Renaissance, in images of the Madonna and Child, the apple that Christ holds in his hands points to him as the Savior of the human race from original sin. The Virgin Mary appears here as the second Eve, who atoned for the sin of the ancestor of people.
= "The fruit picked by Eve, because of which all Humanity was expelled from Paradise, is not an apple. And the reason for this is simple: where the gardens of Eden were supposed to be, apples did not grow. Such a misunderstanding occurred due to the mistake of an unknown Bible publisher who translated "malus-malum" ("evil" or "fruit") as apple. And only from that moment on did "Eve's apple" become an apple. According to the Jews, she picked a fig, nut or carob; Orthodox Christians "They believe it was an orange. Protestants blame honey, and Muslims believe that Eve invited Adam to drink a glass of wine."
You can read about this and other contradictory facts in the Bible at the link: http://www.babyblog.ru/com/spain/498994
But...
As you and I know, nothing happens by chance...;)))
The apple tree has long been considered a VERY feminine tree, capable of giving EXACTLY FEMALE strength and desire to a weakened young lady..."
In the “Song of Songs” (the canonical book of the Old Testament) there are the following lines: “Under the apple tree I woke you up: there your mother gave birth to you, there your mother gave birth to you.” These lines symbolize conception and birth.
The connection between the apple and the apple tree is especially emphasized. The proverb “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” means that children are not far from their parents.
In Rus', an apple was placed on the grave of the deceased.
An apple tree in blossom symbolizes love, so many love procedures are associated with the apple.
In the mythology of the Baltic peoples, the apple symbolizes the setting sun, one of the essences of the sun goddess Saule.
In Celtic mythology, the Isle of the Blessed Avalon takes its name from the Welsh afal, meaning apple.
The apple holiday Halloween is associated with the death of the old year.
In China, the apple symbolizes peace.
In addition, the apple symbolizes eternal youth and immortality. Everyone knows the rejuvenating apples from Russian fairy tales. The ancient Greek myth of the Hesperides tells of a garden in which golden apples of eternal youth grow, guarded by nymphs (Hesperides).
However, the princess was also poisoned by a poisonous apple...
By the way, an apple also fell on Newton’s head....
Scepter and orb
Since ancient times in Rus', the apple has been an image of the world (the name of the power, the attribute of the supreme power - “sovereign apple”).
The term “power” was introduced by Boris Godunov; before that, the symbol of the monk’s state power was called the “apple”. The wedding ceremony included not only the presentation of the scepter, but also the orb: “This apple is a sign of your kingdom. Just as you hold this apple in your hand, so hold the entire kingdom given to you by God, protecting it from enemies unshakably.” The orb or apple was usually held in the right hand.
"The Big Apple" is New York's most famous nickname. It arose in the 1920s with the “light” (Masonic?) hand of the New York Morning Telegraph sports columnist John Fitzgerald (horse racing in New York, according to jockeys, is the “Big Apple”).
According to another version, the expression originated among jazz musicians who had a proverb: “There are many apples on the tree of success, but if you managed to conquer New York, you got a big apple.” “There are many apples on the tree,” the old saying goes, “but only one Big Apple.” So vaudevillians, jazzmen, and other representatives of "wormy entertainment" called New York, as their most important venue, the "Big Apple". http://www.straightdope.com/columns...n-j-fitz-gerald
In 1997, the corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, where John Fitzgerald lived from 1934 to 1963, was officially named the Big Apple Corner by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Are there any other options. Irving Lewis Allen quotes Martin Wayfarer's 1909 commentary: "New York was but one of the fruits of the great tree, whose roots are in the Mississippi valley, and whose branches extend from one ocean to the other.... [But] the big apple [New York] receives a disproportionately large share of national juice"...
Currently, the apple is a symbol of environmentally friendly products, and the apple is also a symbol of Apple.
But this is a modern sign, and not a simple one...
Why did the first Apple computer sell for $666 and use the symbol of the Fall as its logo?
*BBC journalists managed to find a group of brain researchers who were able to conduct this experiment on a magnetic resonance scanner. These scientists have long been analyzing the reactions of a wide variety of groups of people to a variety of stimuli.
The results of a study of an Apple fan showed that when he sees Apple products, there is a dramatic change in his brain state. When scientists studied a group of religious people and showed images of religious symbols, they observed a similar pattern of brain activity.
The conclusion that neuroscientists draw: Apple has learned to exploit the areas of the human brain that are responsible for the processes of perceiving religion.
= oops.. is this something new and can a computer really destroy the world and is that biblical antichrist?
In the center of Manhattan there is an Apple store, the entrance to which is a large glass cube with a suspended glass apple.
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The explanations given by the incomparable Wikipedia, to put it mildly, look like bullshit. On a warm September night. And nothing else. Some horses that love apples. Jazz musicians. But the last explanation is perhaps as close to the truth as possible:
- New York tour guides from Brighton Beach say that the connection of the “apple” with New York appeared due to the fact that the first tree planted by the first settlers that bore fruit was an apple tree. Therefore, the “apple” became a symbol of New York. In the center of Manhattan there is an Apple store, the entrance to which is a large glass cube with a suspended glass apple.
We know, we know Brighton Beach and who exactly lives there. It is written modestly, but tastefully. “Our people” will always understand what we are talking about, but the goyim have no need to know. You can only mindlessly repeat after your “tour guides”.
A gnawed apple as a symbol of a huge city. Interesting. The same apple, nibbled, though only on one side, is a symbol of a large corporation: APPLE Company
YABLOKO Party
One thing is already becoming clear - where there is an apple, there is always a group of believers. Somewhere I came across a mention that Jerusalem is also called the Little Apple. Perhaps this could easily explain why New York is the Big Apple. I just couldn’t find any confirmation right away.
Let's look at the search to see what the Ivers' apple means.
Collection: Apple
Style: Pop Art
Material: gold 585, white, red
Inserts: garnet, citrine, mint amethyst, iolite, rhodolite, zircon.
Basic element: apple
Creative source: semantic interpretation of the apple as a symbol
Emotion: Joy
Apple of discord
The apple of discord is a symbol of base desires: Paris had to give the golden apple to the most beautiful of the three goddesses. Each of the goddesses, trying to get this apple, promised Paris: Hera - power over Asia, Athena - military glory and victory, and Aphrodite - the most beautiful of mortal women, Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda. Paris, without thinking twice, gave the apple to Aphrodite. Paris received Helen's love in return, which marked the beginning of the Trojan War.
Paradise apple
In Europe, an apple is the fruit of the tree of paradise, that is, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, a symbol of temptation and original sin. In paintings of the fall of the pair of progenitors Adam and Eve, the serpent holds the apple of temptation in its mouth. Paintings of Christ show Jesus as a child picking up an apple; The seductive sweetness of the apple was initially associated with sinful temptation, including in the sense of the similarity of words: lat. malus, malus, with malum, malum, bad, evil, sin.
Sovereign apple
A divine gift, a symbol of the state power of the monarch.
Historically, the orb was the insignia of the emperors of the Roman Empire, depicting the globe and symbolizing power over the world. For the first time, the emperor with a ball in his hand can be seen on the coin of Emperor Augustus: at the same time, the balls have letters indicating parts of the world: EVR. (Europe), ASI. (Asia), AFR. (Africa). Often the ball was crowned with the image of the goddess of Victory, Nika; with the advent of the Christian era, it was replaced with a cross. In this form, the power was adopted by the Byzantine and German emperors, and through them by Western European medieval kings.”
Russia adopted this symbol from Poland, where it was called an apple. If the scepter is considered a symbol of the masculine principle, then the orb is considered to be feminine. The wedding ceremony included not only the presentation of the scepter, but also the orb: The Sovereign Apple in the Russian Orthodox Christian tradition symbolizes the Kingdom of Heaven. In medieval painting and iconography, God the Father and Jesus Christ were depicted with a sovereign apple. During the 16th-19th centuries, many luxurious powers were created. The orb or apple was usually held in the right hand. The sovereign apple is depicted on the spire, under the cross of the church, or under the state eagle on the spire of the tower.
Image in fairy tales and mythology
According to the ancient Greek myth about Hercules, his most difficult feat in the service of Eurystheus was the last, twelfth labor: he had to find a golden tree at the edge of the earth, guarded by the sonorous Hesperides along with a hundred-headed dragon, who never closed his eyes in sleep, and get three golden apples.
In the legends of the island Celts, Avalon, the land of apples, is a symbol of unearthly joys. Mythologists consider the apple in this sense as a widespread sign of the joy of love and spring: All paradisiacal abodes of the Neolithic and Bronze Age were islands of fruit trees. In the biblical tradition, the apple is considered an attribute of heaven.
The Slavs also have myths and legends about apples. Russians, like some other peoples, have myths about rejuvenating apples. According to legend, these fabulous fruits were often accompanied by living water. Far away, in the thirtieth kingdom, there is a garden with rejuvenating apples and a well with living water. If you eat this apple to an old man, he will become younger, and if you wash the eyes of a blind man with water from a well, he will see...
There is a legend among the people that apples have a special power to fulfill desires on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, celebrated on August 19. People call it the Apple Savior, since it was on this day in Rus' that it was customary to pick and bless apples and other fruits of the new harvest.
apple's contribution to progress
One of the greatest scientific discoveries of modern times, according to legend, is also connected with the apple. It is believed that Newton came to the law of universal gravitation by paying attention to an apple falling from a branch, and for the first time thinking about why, in fact, objects fall down. The famous apple tree on Newton's family estate in Woolsthorpe (Lincolnshire, England) is long gone, however, more than one new plant has been produced from it by cuttings.
One of the most successful and profitable companies in the world, the computer company Apple Macintosh, has a logo - a bitten apple, although the very first Apple logo depicted Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. The name “Macintosh” also comes from an apple; this name was given to the new computer by Apple employee Jef Raskin in honor of his favorite apple variety.
Three apples that changed the world
Known much earlier than most other fruits, the apple was the measure of many things. And when another overseas “fruit” appeared in medieval Europe, the first thing they did was compare it to an apple: tomatoes were called “golden apples,” potatoes were called “devil’s apples,” oranges (or tangerines) were called “Chinese apples,” lemons were called “Indian apples.” .
Apples in our lives, myths and symbols
The apple tree is one of the oldest fruit trees. The plant's homeland is Asia Minor, from where thousands of years ago it was transported to Palestine, and then to Egypt, Greece and Rome. The Egyptian pharaohs donated a basket of apples to the temples from orchards every day, and apple trees also bloomed in ancient Roman gardens.
And today we will talk about apples, the myths and symbols associated with them.
1.Apple is a symbol of the tree of life.
Apple tree(like a tree) serves as one of the symbols of settled life, peace, and prosperity.
And in apple many have seen an extraordinary fruit - fruit of the tree of life.
Tree of Life in the myths of many peoples, this is the world tree, the axis of the world... It is here, under the world tree, that the gods decide human destinies.
Madonna under the apple tree 
Whatever this tree was, its fruit among European peoples most often turned out to be apple, translated from Romance languages " fruit of paradise».
In the Middle Ages, each Celtic clan in Ireland had its own sacred apple tree, under which pagan festivals were held.
The ancient Germans believed that apple trees enjoyed the protection of the gods - even lightning did not touch them - and surrounded their houses with apple orchards!
In China, the apple tree is a symbol of peace, and the apple blossom is a poetic emblem of beauty.
During the New Year's meal, Jews eat an apple dipped in honey for prosperity in the new year.
In Baltic mythology, the apple is a symbol of the sun, one of the forms of the goddess Saule.
Round form associated with ideas about Universe, space; " blush» apple - with beauty and health, sweetness and aroma - with pleasure.
2.Apple is a super fruit
What kind of apple is it?
Full of ripe juice,
So fresh and so fragrant
So ruddy and golden
It’s like it’s filled with honey!
You can see the seeds right through... 
Apples from our garden
The apple is not only a favorite fruit, it is incredibly healing. Hippocrates also prescribed apples against intestinal diseases, heart and kidney ailments.
Apples have: antiallergic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antitumor properties.
They do not contain fat, cholesterol, sodium - excellent for the figure and blood vessels;
Vitamin composition: vitamins a, b9, b2, b1, pp, c,
100g of apple contains 11.8g of carbohydrates - provides approximately 80 calories of energy;
Source of iron(it is perfectly absorbed from apples, thanks to the content of vitamin G - the “appetite vitamin”).
Source of potassium, manganese, zinc, copper and other useful substances;
Rich in pectin(reduces the likelihood of colon cancer, the formation of gallstones).
Reduces need for insulin in diabetes; strengthens blood vessels. 
Apples are useful for gout: they reduce the formation of uric acid;
Apples help cleanse the blood and clean teeth;
More phytoncides are found closer to the skin, which means it is better not to peel the apples.
Apple wine is made from apple juice, and through fermentation and champagne it is prepared. cider. The brandy produced by distilling cider is called Calvados.
3.Apple is a symbol of temptation, the Forbidden fruit
European tradition (but not the original text of the Bible) considers an apple fruit from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.
The apple was a forbidden fruit, but Eve dared, tried it herself, and passed on the “knowledge” to Adam. The consequence was expulsion from paradise and the entire long journey of humanity.
Adam and Eve Durer 
But the Bible text does not specifically mention what kind of fruit led Eve into temptation.
The word “pomum” (Latin for “fruit”) has undergone a change and began to mean not just any fruit, but an apple. In art, fig, pomegranate, peach and quince were depicted, in addition to the apple, but our apple was unknown in the Ancient East.
The tradition of depicting an apple as a symbol of the Fall appeared during the Renaissance. It is believed that in Greek mythology and the Song of Songs we are talking not about apples, but about pomegranates.
4.Apple - a symbol of love, beauty and perfection
Since ancient times, the apple among the peoples of Europe was considered symbol of perfection(a ball is the most perfect geometric shape) and a divine gift - like a fruit that grew in paradise, like the food of the gods.
During the wedding of Zeus and Hera, Gaia gave her an apple - a symbol of fertility. In Athens, newlyweds shared and ate an apple upon entering the wedding chamber; handing over an apple was considered a sign of love.
Legends and fairy tales emphasize not only the benefits of fruits, but their external charm and mysterious essence, which gives people health, beauty, and eternal youth.
5.Apple - a symbol of eternal youth and immortality
Apples in many myths are associated with heaven or the Garden of Eden.
In Celtic mythology, the Isle of the Blessed Avalon got its name from the Welsh afal, apple. On Avalon, lost among the distant “western islands,” there lived beautiful women who treated the sailors who happened to come to them with wonderful apples of immortality. 
According to Irish belief, the apple, a magical fruit, ensures immortality. If you cut it in two, you will see a five-pointed star - pentagram, symbolizing the five states from birth to death, and then a new birth.
There was a legend that there is an apple tree, on whose silver branches apples grow, which have the property of immortality and give youth. And the heroes of legends and fairy tales are trying to get these apples.
Apples of the Hesperides
At the edge of the world, near the banks of the Ocean River, the ancient Greeks placed a garden with golden apples, which give eternal youth, Hera instructed them to guard to the dragon Ladon and sisters Hesperides. 
Hercules managed to steal these apples - this was his twelfth feat.
And the Magic Apple Tree in Scandinavian Asgard guarded by three wise men norns (deities who determine fate at birth).
Only goddess of spring Idunn They allowed us to pick wonderful apples. 
From her inexhaustible casket (basket), the beautiful Idunn distributed golden apples - and the gods of Asgard retained eternal youth (Penrose painting).
6.Apple in myths and fairy tales
Fairy tales
Rejuvenating apples saw the tsar from a Russian fairy tale in a dream and sent three sons after them. Luck smiled on the youngest - Ivan Tsarevich. He saddled a falcon, flew “to a certain kingdom, the thirtieth state” of Helen the Beautiful, and picked apples in the garden. 
In another fairy tale, a young man was led to an apple tree on which three apples hung: one wrinkled - the apple of wisdom, another, full - apple of wealth, and the third, green and unripe - the apple of happiness. The young man chose yellow and wrinkled, because he guessed that if you were a wise person, you could arrange your wealth and happiness.
In Russian folk tales, an apple predicts fate, shows the world 
“An apple rolls on a saucer, poured on a silver one, and on the saucer all the cities are visible one after another, ships on the seas and shelves in the fields...” (“The Tale of a Silver Saucer and a Liquid Apple”). 
In many fairy tales, an apple tree saves you from trouble.
In the fairy tale " Swan geese", a girl who tasted the fruit of a wild apple tree was saved along with her brother by a tree that covered them with branches. 
In myths
There lived a young huntress in Greece - Atalanta.
Many wooed Atalanta, but the proud girl did not want to get married. She set a condition for the grooms - to overtake her in the run. However, she always managed to overtake the challenger. Only to the cunning Hippomenes managed to win Atalanta's hand: starting to run, he threw three golden apples one after another at the beauty's feet, and, picking them up, Atalanta fell behind.
7. Apple - a symbol of discord
At the heart of the expression " apple of discord" lies the ancient Greek myth: the goddess of discord Eris, offended that she was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, stole one of the apples of the Hesperides. And with the inscription " The most beautiful» threw it at the wedding feast. A dispute arose between three goddesses: Hero, Athena and Aphrodite.
Zeus gave the apple to Hermes and told him to lead the goddesses to the surrounding area Troy, on the slope of Mount Ida. The dispute was supposed to be resolved there Paris, son of King Priam of Troy.
Judgment of Paris
Each of the goddesses began to convince Paris to give the apple to her. They promised Paris great rewards. 
Aphrodite promised him the most beautiful Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda, as his wife, and Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite.
Since then, the apple has been an attribute of Venus (Aphrodite) and the three Graces (her handmaidens). 
Aphrodite forced the wife of King Menelaus, the beautiful Helen, to fall in love with the young man... And began Trojan War.
Eris achieved her goal. The apple of discord sowed enmity between the inhabitants of Olympus. It led to the outbreak of the bloody Trojan War, in which both gods and people were involved.
A short digression, not about apples.
Raspberries- red berry of Mount Ida. On this mountain, in the raspberry thickets, the award by Paris took place apple Aphrodite, who here, along with Athena and Hera, stood naked in front of Paris so that he could decide which of them was more beautiful.
That's why raspberries became symbol odious, piquant place or event. And now " raspberry" And " raspberries” retain this meaning.
8. “Bullseye”- another catchphrase meaning perfect hit accuracy.
Shot the bull's eye William Tell- the legendary hero of Switzerland, who lived at the turn of the 13th - 14th centuries, a skilled archer. 
The Austrian governor Gessler behaved like a tyrant. When William Tell did not carry out orders, Gessler, as punishment, forced him to shoot V apple
on the head son of Tell. Tell coped with the task, but admitted that if he had hit his son, he would have killed Gesler with another arrow.
There is a drama by Schiller and an opera by Rossini “William Tell”.
9.Apple - a symbol of knowledge
Adam and Eve committed a sin by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, and that fruit was an apple. People were expelled from the Garden of Eden. 
But, having lost their serene existence, they acquired knowledge and looked at the vast world with wide open eyes, with understanding, because the forbidden apple grew on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Since then apple - symbol of knowledge.
Medieval scientists - alchemists believed that the apple symbolized process of cognition and the fantastic fifth element. Indeed, in the core of a cut apple, medieval sages saw a five-pointed star, expressing the mystical quintessence. 
According to a well-known legend, the Law of Universal Gravitation was discovered by Newton, who observed falling apples.
At that time, he was trying to understand what forces kept the Moon in its orbit. The fall of apples in the garden led him to the idea that the same force of gravity acts on the apple, only at a short distance.
Apple
AppleInc.(apple - English “apple”) is a well-known American corporation, manufacturer of computers, phones, and software.
The Apple Corporation symbol - an apple bitten on the right side - is one of the most recognizable in the modern world. 
A Mac- personal computers produced by the company.
Why an apple?
Different versions:
Here's a story: Steve Jobs loved apples of the Mackintosh variety (in Russia the variety is known as Osennye krasnobokoe, Khoroshevka osennyaya). And when the employees spent a long time looking for the name of the company, he threatened that if by the end of the working day no one had “created” a decent name for the company, he would call the company his favorite apple. It looks like the employees couldn't cope...
Or:
Steve Jobs' idol was the British mathematician Alan Turing, the scientist is sometimes called the “father of artificial intelligence and computer science.” Turing committed suicide by biting into an apple he himself had filled with cyanide.
10.Apple - a symbol of power
One of the signs of the monarch’s power is the power, “sovereign apple”
An apple, due to its round shape, is perceived as cosmic symbol, therefore, kings and kings, along with the scepter, hold in their hands a representing the whole world
"sovereign apple"(power). 
Previously, the sovereign apple was crowned with the figure of the goddess of victory Nike. In the Christian era, the place of Nike was taken by the cross, even the astronomical symbol of the Earth is a circle with a cross on it.
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Apple in art
Many artists turned their “paradise” gardens into apple trees.
From the famous Florentine Sandro Botticelli on the canvas " Spring“The action takes place in the heavenly garden under the crowns of apple trees. 
German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, in the film " Golden age"also depicts an apple orchard. 
In the painting by the English painter Burne-Jones, “The Head of Medusa the Gorgon,” people stand under an apple tree. Perseus and Andromeda, and look at the reflection of the Gorgon in the well. 
"Apple" the image is also reflected in literary fairy tales
In Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights,” an apple made the beautiful princess fall asleep for a long time:
What kind of apple is it?
Full of ripe juice,
So fresh and so fragrant..." 
Pushkin knew that the apple is a philosophical image, a symbol of temptation, life and death.
Basket filled with apples and roses- attribute of Christian Martyr Dorothea. Dorothea was condemned to death by the Roman governor in 303 for refusing to renounce her faith in Christ. One of Dorothea's executioners, Theophilus, mocking faith, asked the saint to send him apples and roses from the heavenly gardens of Christ.
Dorothea in Zurbaran's painting 
After Dorothea's execution, a cherub appeared before the astonished Theophilus with a basket filled with apples and roses. Amazed by the miracle, Theophilus was baptized.
Heraldry
The apple is part of many coats of arms.
Rossosh(Voronezh region) 
The confluence of the Chernaya Kalitva and Sukhaya Rossoshi rivers is reflected by a blue fork-shaped cross. The Golden Apple shows the large number of apple orchards around the city.
Zyablikovo(Moscow area)
In the center of the white stripe is an image of a finch on a branch. Below is an image of a yellow apple. 
The finch symbolizes the name of the municipality, from a village that existed in the 17th century. The apple symbolizes the apple orchards located here in the 17th-18th centuries.
Apple in Slavic beliefs
Travelers called the lands of the ancient Slavs the Kingdom of Apple Trees
Among the Slavs, the apple acted as a love sign: a guy and a girl, having exchanged fruits, declared their love. An apple accepted by a girl during matchmaking is a sign of consent to marriage.
Apple tree branches decorated the bride's wreath and were used to decorate the festive table. So, Belarusians, Ukrainians and Poles stuck an apple tree branch into a loaf, and Russians - into a wedding chicken.
The Western Slavs believed that to ensure health, it was necessary to wash oneself with water containing an apple on Christmas and New Year.
For the future health and beauty of the children, the pregnant woman had to hold on to the apple tree and look at its branches or fruits.
In Bulgarian beliefs, Archangel Michael accepted a soul into heaven only with an apple.
Kustodiev Apple Orchard. 1918 
Apple Spas- popular name for the holiday Transfiguration of the Lord, August 19.
Apple Spas is also called " first autumn", welcoming autumn. It is believed that the nights after August 19th become colder.
Before the Savior, it is not allowed to eat apples, but on this day, apples are picked and blessed. 
In the old days, at Apple Spas, they baked pies with apples, made apple jam and treated each other to it. And in the evening everyone saw off the sunset with songs.
When you eat the first apple, you make a wish: “What is far-fetched will come true, what will come true will not pass.” "An apple for lunch - and all diseases are gone"
And again - a photo from our garden. Help yourself!!)) 
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Interesting facts about apples
Karl Wilhelm Scheele isolated a new organic acid from unripe apples in 1785, which he called malic acid.
The bulge on the front of the neck in men is called Adam's apple.
Most apple blossoms start out pink and gradually turn white as they open.
To grow 1 apple, the “energy” of 50 leaves is required.
The height of trees can reach more than 12 meters.
Some apple trees live more than 100 years. 
China is the leader in apple growing.
The Kazakh name of the former capital of Kazakhstan is Almaty— translated as “ Apple».
In Russia, the city is called Alma-Ata, which is translated as “Father of Apples” (from “apple” - “alma” and “father” - “ata”).
Initially word " apple" meant " any fruit", which is reflected in a number of languages:
Orange- German Apfelsine, " Chinese apple»,
Tomato- it. pomo d'oro, " Golden Apple»,
Potato- fr. pommes de terre, earth apple.
How to put a whole apple in a bottle 
How to make an inscription or drawing 
Paste a cut-out design onto a ripening apple
Apple in feng shui - symbol health and harmony in the house. This is due to one of the meanings of the Chinese character world, which can also be translated as Apple. 
Apple- a feng shui symbol associated with life extension- that is, health. Therefore, apples made of metal, crystal or stone are used as gifts.
Big apple
It is known that "Big apple"-nickname New York.
New York tour guides say that " apple"became a symbol of New York because the first tree planted by the first settlers was an apple tree.
According to another version, the expression arose among jazz musicians who had a saying: “ There are many apples on the tree of success, but if you manage to conquer New York, you get a big apple». 
Another version:
The French emigrant, Evelyn (Eve) de Saint-Overmond, set up a salon - a place for parties, gambling and witty conversations. But in fact it was an elegantly furnished brothel.
Evelyn called the seductresses in the establishment “Eva’s apples, which are impossible to resist.” Regulars began to talk about the love affairs as a "taste for Eve's apples."
And New York began to be called the “Big Apple,” where there were many brothels.
apple day
In the USA (February 20) and Great Britain (October 21 or the next weekend) unofficial holidays, “apple days,” are held.
In England, on this day they organize a fun competition to peel the longest strip of peel from an apple. 
Some apple games are also present at Halloween parties. One of the favorite English games is where an apple is hung on a string in a doorway and the players have to eat the apple without using their hands - not an easy task!
In Cornwall, on Halloween night, it was customary to place apples under the pillow to dream of your future husband or wife. 
That's how much you can tell about apples.
And how good it is that apples are present in our lives! Apples are wonderful fruits, their charm, taste and aroma give us health, beauty, youth, and just a good mood, a taste for life!
Sources
http://simbol.ucoz.ru/publ/simvol_i_simvolika/15
Wikipedia
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The meaning of an apple in people's lives.
The apple, from a botanical point of view, is not always a clearly defined stone fruit.
Since ancient times, apples have been collected from wild apple trees; this was not only a significant event in people’s lives, but also fateful symbols in their destinies.
The main meaning of the apple symbol is love., marriage, spring, youth, fertility, longevity and immortality.
Since ancient times, apples were considered the food of the gods.
Greek, Celtic and Norse mythologies describe the apple as a miraculous fruit that gives the gods their power.
Apple of discord meaning and origin of phraseology.
The Greek hero Hercules, also known as Hercules, stole the golden apples of immortality from the Hesperides.
Afterwards, the goddess of discord and chaos, Eris, became the cause of the rivalry between Aphrodite, Athena and Hera, which led to the Trojan War, by throwing a golden apple in the middle of the hall at the wedding of King Peleus and the goddess Thetis in the middle of the hall with the inscription Most Beautiful, since she was not invited to the wedding.
This is how the expression Apple of Discord was born.
Hit the apple
The story of William Tell gave birth to the expression Hitting the Bullseye. The Swiss hero William Tell was ordered by the imperial governor Gessler to shoot an apple placed on the head of his son with a bow.
William Tell took two arrows from his quiver, and the first one hit the apple.
When the governor asked why the second arrow was needed, William Tell killed the governor.
Thus began the liberation war of the Swiss highlanders against the Roman Empire of the German nation, which ended in victory for the Swiss.
Apple meanings.
Among the Celts The Silver Branch is a branch of an apple tree that has magical and chthonic powers, and its fruit gives fertility to the bride.
The apple holiday Halloween is associated with the death of the old year.
According to Irish belief, the apple, is a fruit that ensures immortality: when you cut it, you can see a five-pointed star, symbolizing the five states from birth to death and rebirth.
Estonians It was forbidden to steal the fruits of a young apple tree; it might dry out.
Among the Slavs the meaning of the apple is a symbol of fertility, health, love, beauty; the branches of the apple tree play an important role in wedding ceremonies..
In China The apple is a symbol of peace and harmony due to the consonance of the Chinese words pin Apple tree and pin Peace.
Making a gift carries the idea of eternal harmony and is equivalent to wishing Peace to you.
However, the name of the apple is also consonant with the word disease, so in China it is not customary to give apples to the sick.
In Latin the word apple and the word evil are spelled the same way - malum.
To keep everyone healthy for the New Year, wash your face with water containing apples.
In order for the children to be healthy and beautiful, the pregnant woman had to hold on to the apple tree and look at its branches.
In Slovakia the young wife, having arrived at the new house, poured a full basket of apples onto the floor so that there would be abundance in the household.
The holiday of the Transfiguration of the Lord was most often called Apple saved, since the apples were ripe by this day.
They said, The Savior has come - it’s only an hour, The Savior has come - he’s stocked up on an apple, The apples won’t be born - so there won’t be a Savior.
In dreams eating an apple means a quick wedding and happiness in marriage.
In alchemy noticed that an apple cut crosswise in its core contained a certain five-pointed shape, which reminded them of the sought-after fifth element.
They also used this fruit as a symbol of knowledge.
In medicine the meaning of apples used to cleanse and rejuvenate the body, prevent and treat diseases of the digestive system.
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