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Key facts
- Major cult center
- Pomonal
- Abode
- gardens and orchards
- Symbols
- pruning knife
- Festivals
- Vertumnalia
- Consort
- Vertumnus
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- Pomona
- worshipped by
- ancient Roman religion
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Encyclopedic overview
Pomona (/pəˈmoʊnə/ , Latin: [poːˈmoːna]) was a goddess of fruitful abundance and plenty in ancient Roman religion and myth. Her name comes from the Latin word pomum, "fruit", specifically orchard fruit.
Pomona was said to be a wood nymph. Pomona does not have a clear counterpart in Greek mythology, although the fruit goddess Opora can be seen as her equivalent.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pomona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.