Today we will deal with the pomegranate. A fruit which is an important symbolic element of Freemasonry and was channeled into Freemasonry by Jewish Masons. Of course we all know the relationship of the Filiki Eteria with Freemasonry as well as the connection of various politicians and Patriarchs with Freemasonry. There’s nothing hidden in the sunlight.
For some strange reason the Masonic Pomegranate was forced as a Greek New Year’s tradition sometime in the previous centuries and since then there has been an oppressive propaganda to accept it as part of our tradition.
Personally, I never understood the relation of the pomegranate with the New Year. The pomegranate was not a tradition either on my Pontian mother or my Macedonian father. I never heard stories of the style: when we were children, on New Year’s we used to take some pomegranates and do this or that.
If you told me about the carobs, I would understood it, they gave carobs to my mother when she sang carols as child, she remembered it very well.
She even tried to find me carobs when I was kid so I could learn what carobs are. And carobs weren’t the easiest product to find when I was a kid. People in Greece connected carobs with the difficult days of WW2 in their minds so it was almost out of market when I was child in Thessaloniki.
This is why I took a photo with carobs in the market of Trabzon, because carobs remind me my mother and her stories. It was very cute to see carobs in the market of Trabzon.
So as you understand, if there was something related to the pomegranate and the New Year, I suppose my mother wouldn’t kept it as secret from me. There was nothing related with pomegranates and New Year traditions.
But you can tell me, that this could only happen in my own family. Other families may indeed have had the pomegranate in their New Year’s tradition. For this reason I searched the New Year’s carols throughout Greece trying to locate even one pomegranate. If the pomegranate was such an important element of the New Year’s traditions of the Greeks, normally they would have included it into the New Year’s carols, which mention several of the customs of the Greeks in their lyrics.
No matter how much I searched for traditional Greek New Year’s carols, I couldn’t find a pomegranate. Not even in the Pontic carols that mention many fruits was there any mention of the pomegranate. I imagine that if the pomegranate was so important in the traditions of the people, they would mention it in the carols of Greece.
The pomegranate entered the traditions of the Greeks as a symbol of Freemasonry and was established through propaganda year after year. The common people who did not know about Freemasonry did not understand anything. Especially since the Freemasons started the ancient Greek stories about the pomegranate, it was accepted over time and today it is considered an old New Year’s custom even though it is a symbol of Freemasonry.
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