The spot where Persephone was believed to have been carried into the lower world is different in the different traditions the common story places it in Sicily, in the neighborhood of Enna, on Mount Etna, or between the wells Cyane and Arethusa. Her mother, who heard only the echo of her voice, immediately set out in search of her daughter. Her cries of anguish were heard only by Hecate and Helios. Zeus, without the knowledge of Demeter, had promised Persephone to Hades, and while the unsuspecting maiden was gathering flowers which Zeus had caused to grow in order to tempt her and to favor Hades' scheme, the earth suddenly opened and she was carried off by Aidoneus (Hades). 4 The most prominent part in the mythus of Demeter is the rape of her daughter Persephone by Hades, and this story not only suggests the main idea embodied in Demeter, but also directs our attention to the principal seats of her worship. 2īy her brother Zeus, Demeter became the mother of Persephone (Proserpine) and Dionysus, 3 and by Poseidon of Despoena and the horse Arion. Like the other children of Cronus she was devoured by her father, but he gave her forth again after taking the emetic which Metis had given him. But Demeter does promise to teach her sacred rituals to the Eleusinians.Demeter was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and sister of Hestia, Hera, Aides, Poseidon, and Zeus. Demeter drops the child in surprise, resumes her divine form, and rebukes Metaneira for interfering with divine secrets which would have made the baby immortal. But one evening Metaneira spies on Demeter and interrupts the rite. Queen METANEIRA is impressed with the `woman' and gives her employment.ĭemeter anoints the baby Demopho(o)n every evening with ambrosia, and puts theīaby in the fire of the hearth to burn away its mortality. Offered hospitality, Demeter refuses wine, but accepts a drink called kykeion (barley water with pennyroyal). Since their mother needs a nanny for their young brother the most amusing of the girls is IAMBE (‘Iambic verse’). They treat the disguised goddess sympathetically, and invite her to come to the Palace, Taking the form of an old woman (crone), Demeter sits down to rest near a well called Parthenion (`Maiden'), where she is approached by the daughters of King Celeus, who have come to fetch water. The other gods perceive the trick, but Demeter is soĭistracted that he eats Pelops' shoulder.Īlthough Pelops is reassembled and reanimated by Zeus (resurrection ? Osiris story ?), his shoulder (b) In Elis, TANTALUS prepares a cannibalistic banquet to test Zeus and the gods: his son PELOPS is theĭinner. (a) While searching Arcadia Demeter is raped by her brother Poseidon (horse cult?)
The day) tells Demeter where her daughter is. After 9 days, Helios (who sees everything above
Isis searching fot the body-parts of her husband-brother Osiris in the Egyptian fertility myth).Ĭarrying torches, Demeter searches for Kore. -While Demeter is searching, there is no fertility (cf.
The daughters of Melpomene, who were Pandora's companions, were turned into SIRENS because they would not help search for her (or ‘in order to search for her’). Only ARETHUSA (daughter of Alpheus the River, she is a spring in Sicily), HELIOS, and HECATE heard or saw the abduction. -In Hades' palace, Persephone eats seven pomegranate seeds, and so becomes `attached' to Hades.-Hades, in his golden chariot drawn by black horses, `rapes' her.-picking flowers in the meadow (symbol of virginity, and its destruction).THE ABDUCTION of Kore (Persephone) by Hades. KORE (Persephone), daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
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