In Armenia, for example, the pomegranate is a symbol of fertility ... The pomegranate links with the myth of Hades and Persephone, where Hades, god of the underworld, used seeds of the pomegranate ...

People prayed to these gods ... dead. Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, ALEPOTRYPA CAVE, EPHORATE OF PALEOANTHROPOLOGY-SPELEOLOGY Ancient Greeks believed Charon the ferryman took souls to Hades ...