Legend: Onion

Please see the Introduction To Rabbit Hole Legend A-Z post for information about sources and purpose.

Onion: The song "Glass Onion" is the main link between Onions and the Beatles, but the song alone is a metaphor for layers. Throughout the song, the lyrics lead us through a layer-by-layer exploration of previous Beatles songs, linking them together into a sense of wholeness, or "Oneness", bringing the journey full-circle. I highly recommend listening to both versions of the "Glass Onion" song from takes on the Anthology album, posted here. They are both slightly different from the final album version, but both hold very interesting experiences. "It's a Code!" "Help!".

" Onion: "the onion was considered to be so powerful, both as a symbol and as a useful plant, that there existed a cult in Egypt dedicated to its worship and cultivation. The onion represented eternity, because of its circle within-a-circle structure.

In the Dharmic religions such as Hindu and Buddhism, the fact that the layers of the onion can be peeled away, and that it has no central core,  makes it analogous with the ego; eventually, there is barrier to the spirit world and all is One. The first line of the Onion Song by Marvin Gaye reflects this sentiment; 'The world is just a great big onion...'." (ISS)

"Onions, members of the lily, or allium, family, are one of the oldest known cultivated vegetables and are among the world’s most popular vegetables[...]

Our word "onion” comes from the Middle English “unyun”, which in turn comes from the French “oignon”, ultimately deriving from the Latin "unio", meaning one or unity, because an onion grows as a single bulb.[...]

In ancient Egypt, the onion symbolized eternity because of its circle-within-a-circle structure. Paintings of onions appear on the inner walls of the pyramids and in the tombs of both the Old Kingdom and the New Kingdom.

The onion is mentioned as an Egyptian funeral offering and is depicted on the banquet tables of the great feasts. Frequently, a priest is pictured holding onions in his hand or covering an altar with a bundle of their leaves or roots.[...]

'It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.'
—The reason the Queen of Hearts wants to behead the Seven-of-Spades in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

“Life is like an onion.
You peel it off one layer at a time;
And sometimes you weep.”
—Carl Sandburg, American poet" <Source>