The silver apples of the moon, During the 2010s and beyond, sites like YouTube and Reddit began to blow up with discussions about upside-down pineapples. Atlas holds the world on his shoulders, and Hercules offers to hold it for a time instead if Atlas will get the apples. Gold apples also appear on the Silver Branch of the Otherworld in Irish mythology . As the race begins, Melanion throws the apples at Atalantas feet to distract her.