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Italian traditions: The pink apple of the Apennine Sibyl

Italian traditions: The pink apple of the Apennine Sibyl

  • WTI Magazine #145 Nov 13, 2021
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In Montedinove, an ancient village along the Valle Dell'Aso in the Sibillini Mountains in the province of Ascoli Piceno, in the Marche Region, every year for the feast of the dead women are celebrated through the pink apple (la mela rosa) of the Sibillini Mountains.

Many people gather to shop for typical products of the land and obviously this small prodigious apple, which has highly curative properties, cannot be missed. Women are happy because it is also a way to celebrate the Sibilla Appenninica, the prophetess present on the mountain since the first time. The Fairy is named after the mountain itself: Mount Sibilla.

Eating the apple for women means strengthening their intuition and seeing the future, as it is the detached fruit of the apple tree considered the tree of knowledge that leads to immortality and eternal youth.

Why is the apple of Sibyl good? Because the mountain, being linked to the goddess Venus, is a cosmic mountain, the point of connection between terrestrial magnetism and the etheric celestial forces, therefore the whole area below the mountain is sacred and has a particular energy, also because both the ground and the water as well as the surrounding nature have had contact with the sacred fire of the goddess.

The Sibyl has always been spoken of as a man-eater, but in reality the Sibyl is that particular sensitive and delicate erotic energy that is pure love, and pink is the color of love and the feminine. The rose represents the attainment of absolute wisdom and usually the rose taken into consideration is the one with 5 petals like the apple flower.