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    Which tree was Adonis associated with?

    Question #100660. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Oct 30 08 5:45 PM)


    zbeckabee

    		Multiple versions of the birth of Adonis exist: The most commonly accepted version is that Aphrodite urged Myrrha to commit incest with her father, Theias, the King of Smyrna or Syria (which helps confirm the area of Adonis' origins). Myrrha's nurse helped with the scheme, and Myrrha coupled with her father in the darkness. When Theias at last discovered this deception by means of an oil lamp, he flew into a rage, chasing his daughter with a knife. Myrrha fled from her father, and Aphrodite turned her into a myrrh tree. When Theias shot an arrow into the tree — or alternately when a boar used its tusks to rend the tree's bark — Adonis was born from the tree.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis

    Oct 30 08, 5:48 PM

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