Pomona’s Family Tree

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Family

• Vertumnus(spouse)— Consort

  Vertumnus courted Pomona through a parade of disguises — reaper, vine-dresser, soldier, fisherman — until he appeared as an old woman, told the cautionary tale of Iphis and Anaxarete, then cast off his disguise and won her love in his true form.

Associated with

• Faunus,Priapus,Silvanus

  Pomona shut herself inside her orchards and refused every suitor who came calling — Silvanus, Faunus, Priapus, and a host of other rustic gods all failed to win her, each turned away by the nymph who loved only her pruning-knife and her trees.