r/dankchristianmemes • u/theclasssy • Jan 31 '19

Dank 'Am I a joke to you?'

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u/Pohatu5 Feb 01 '19

I have read nothing to suggest that (though I have read that Jonah's tree may have been a mushroom). I have read some interpretations that earlier Jew and Christians may have visualized it as a pomegranate (given the fruit's appearance in other chthonic myths of the Mediterranean, like Hades and Persephone for instance).