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In Greek mythology, the story that led to the birth of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, also gave rise to the creation of rosemary. ​ Kronos, the youngest of the 12 Titans, ended his father’s reign by severing his masculinity with a sickle and casting it into the sea. It was from the foam that emerged in the Aegean and Mediterranean waters following this act that Aphrodite was born. Rosemary, too, began to grow in the very places where these foams washed ashore.

Our skin, with a surface area of around two square meters and a weight ranging between 3 and 10 kilograms in adults, is the largest organ of the human body. Long before we can make sense of what we see and hear, it serves as our first guide to the world. Thanks to the nerve endings within it that sense pain, touch, pressure, and temperature, our relationship with our surroundings begins through the skin. ​ As our awareness develops, it may seem like we rely more on our other

According to the Torah, Noah — said to have lived for 950 years — took cuttings from two plants onto his ark during the 120 years he spent preparing for the great flood: the vine and the fig tree. As one legend goes, after the waters receded and Noah began planting vineyards, the Devil appeared beside him and claimed ownership of the vines. In fact, versions of this story — told with different angels, plants, and ways of dividing the spoils — can be found in various tradition

d From Ancient Egypt to Classical Greece, from Rome to Anatolia, the fig tree has been regarded as sacred in many cultures; references to figs can also be found in both the Bible and the Qur’an. Whether it is because the fig leaf became the first symbol of shame in the story of Adam and Eve, its tiny seeds were long overlooked. Yet today we know that those tiny seeds scattered throughout the flesh of this fruit of abundance hold a unique treasure of oil that modern science ha