Queen of the Dead part 2, 129
"The motif of the famine or drought plays a role in many other versions of the myth. As a grief-stricken Demeter searches in vain for her daughter, the crops cease to grow. The famine thus constitutes an outward manifestation of the overwhelming grief of the goddess of vegetation. As we have seen, the Hymn to Demeter suppresses the theme of the Search for Persephone, and the famine is deferred until after the events in the palace of Celeus."
"Demeter's first plan, to immortalize and adopt a human child - and thereby to subvert the order of Zeus - has been thwarted. After its failure, the goddess conceives a second plan: to starve men so that they can no longer bring offerings to the gods. While Demeter may still be irritated at mankind for interfering with her designs, the true object of her wrath remains the gods, Zeus, above all. But she is quite willing to sacrifice mankind to her own purpose. The cessation of vegetation is consciously - and somewhat heartlessly - willed and planned by Demeter to achieve her goal."
The Politics of Olympus by Jenny Strauss Clay
This is the last page of part 2. But my work is not done. Oh no. Now begins the editing. I want to change a few scenes and maybe add something. Part 3 will start, at the earliest, some time next year.
