POM Wonderful

Ancient Assyrians and Egyptians frequently represented pomegranates in their sculptures as a sacred tree, or "tree of life."

Mohammad is said to have praised pomegranates for their nutritional and spiritual value, and to have encouraged his followers to eat them as a means of purging their bodies of envy and hatred.

Fâtiha-khwân
"Happy-checked saqi of mine, give the cup like pomegranate blossom; if for my sake you will not give for the sake of the heart of the Beloved."

According to Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton, "Scientists at the University of Chicago just confirmed that ancient Egyptian scribes used ink made from pomegranate juice--more than 1700 years ago--to write the Gospel of Judas, recently discovered in Egypt. This astonishing discovery, like the Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Mary Magdalene --is transforming what we know about the beginning of the Christian movement."