Does anyone know about myths on the flower Violet?
Hardy perennial. Wild flower with scented deep purple flowers and heart-shaped leaves. Flowers early spring. Found in the wild in woodland and hedgebanks It is our only native violet with scented flowers. Freud linked the plant’s name to the Greek “viol”, meaning rape, and the English word “violate”, and concluded that the plant had sexual connotations. He claimed that to dream of Violets was to dream of being raped. Legend has it that the name Viola comes from the Greek “ion” – Jupiter turned Io, his love, into a cow and the earth brought forth Violets for her to eat. It was a symbol of the city of ancient Athens, and a symbol of fertility to the ancient Greeks. Also the symbol of Aphrodite and her son, Priapus. Venus made the Violet blue – she asked her son, Cupid, who was more beautiful: herself or other women. He said that other women were and so she beat these women until they turned blue and into Violets. Another legend says that a nymph called Lo, who Zeus loved, was changed int
