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Then there’s also in a sibling desert religion how “40 figs” became “40 virgins” and nobody remembers when or how it happened… or even that the switch happened, at all.
While we’re here, should also point out the fruit Adam and Eve ate in the garden was likely a fig. They do after all immediately after pick up fig leaves to cover themselves. Somehow it turned into an apple in the popular imagination…
Then there’s also in a sibling desert religion how “40 figs” became “40 virgins” and nobody remembers when or how it happened… or even that the switch happened, at all.
I thought it was grapes, not figs?
If it was olives, we might have an explanation…
While we’re here, should also point out the fruit Adam and Eve ate in the garden was likely a fig. They do after all immediately after pick up fig leaves to cover themselves. Somehow it turned into an apple in the popular imagination…