Talk:Locacaca/@comment-4148373-20180817020951/@comment-1712781-20190607085256

I mean, he drew some inspiration from the christian mythology for the last part, but in a really loose way

i dont think it would follow the rules of an arbitrary random fruit in the bible, especially such a deep cut that noone would know but someone within the cult whos read it a million times

the idea of a fruit that grants certain otherwordly/special powers has been in almost every mythology, and in a much larger way than what the writers the bible used as inspiration, since much of it is just copy pasted from earlier mythology, like egyptian, mithras, early gnostics etc

The apples of Idunn in norse mythology grant rejuvenating power to the gods that eat themand a similar fruit is in greek mythology, the fruit/drink of olympus ambrosia

the trees in eden are more commonly used in various media, its more widely known by everyone else

manga authors live in japan, christianity is a pretty minor cult there, they like pulling from the cool sounding stuff and cherry pick from various mythologies, greek/norse being big ones and also kabbalic mysticism too, other than the standard imagery of apple/jesus etc they dont really delve into the thick of christian mythos, its not really that interesting