#proserpine

Ceres searching for Proserpine, ca.1780s by Johan Tobias Sergel, 1740-1814, Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Persephone and Hades tending the soil after a harvest in order to ensure the bounty of the following year's harvest, maintaining the cycle of death and rebirth.

— Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839)

Various versions of Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, created between 1874 and 1882

(Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I took a few days off to focus on getting my life in order for the next bit, but now I'm back :)) Persephone is the Goddess of Spring, Curses, Passage to Elysium, Necromancy, Spirits, the Erinyes and Grain, she's also the Queen of the Underworld, as the Goddess of Spring, she is usually titled as Kore(Maiden), but after her marriage to Hades, her name changed to Persephone, which is thought to translate to "Bringer of Detsruction". 𝔈𝔭𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔰 🥀Kore - Maiden 🥀Brimo - The Terrifying 🥀Karpophoroi - The Fruitbearers(Shared by her and Demeter) 🥀Deione - Daughter of Demeter 🥀Despoina - The Mistress 🥀Eleusinia - Of Eleusis 🥀Kthonia - Of the Earth 🥀Soteira - Saviour 🥀Megala Thea - Great Goddess 🥀Hagne - Holy One 🥀Daeira - Knowing One 🥀Praxidike - Exacter of Justice 🥀Enodios - She by the Crossroads 🥀Ceroessa - Horned 🥀Potnia - Mistress/Queen 🥀Tergemina - Three-formed 🥀Viodohtis - Life-giving ℭ𝔲𝔩𝔱 ℭ𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔰 🥀 Eleusis 🥀Athens 🥀Alimos 🥀Prospalta 🥀Kephisos 🥀Megara 🥀Corinth 🥀Sikyon 🥀Celeia 🥀Phlious 🥀Argos 🥀Mycenae 🥀Eilei 🥀Bouporthmos 🥀Hermione 🥀Lerna 🥀Crete 🥀Delos 🥀Sicily(Italy) 🥀Cyrene(Libya) 🥀Alexandria(Egypt) 🥀Ephesus(Anatolia) 🥀Knidos(Anatolia) 🥀Priene(Anatolia) 𝔖𝔞𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔓𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔰 🥀Pomegranate 🥀Anemone 🥀Asphodel 🥀Mint 🥀Poppy 🥀Wheat 🥀Willow 𝔖𝔞𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔄𝔫𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔩𝔰/𝔖𝔶𝔪𝔟𝔬𝔩𝔰 🥀Bats 🥀Deer 🥀Butterflies ℭ𝔯𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔰 🥀Amethyst 🥀Bloodstone 🥀Garnet 🥀Obsidian 🥀Aventurine 𝔉𝔲𝔫 𝔉𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔰 🥀Persephone and her Mother had one of the largest mystery cults in ancient Greece, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were related to the myth described in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, while we do not know exactly what happened during these Mysteries, some theories say that Initiates may have drank a Psychedelic tea called Kykeon. 🥀Persephone has likely been worshipped since pre-hellenic times, there is evidence of her origins in Minoan Crete, and the myth of the Abduction of Persephone is theorized by some to have been influenced by the Sumerian myth of Ereshkigal being abudcted by the dragon Kur and forced to become the Queen of the Underworld. 🥀In the Orphic Mystery Cult, Persephone is considered the mother of Dionysus, equating Dionysus' first incarnation with her son by Zeus, Zagreus.

Afar away the light that brings cold cheer Unto this wall, – one instant and no more Admitted at my distant palace-door Afar the flowers of Enna from this drear Dire fruit, which, tasted once, must thrall me here. Afar those skies from this Tartarean grey That chills me: and afar how far away, The nights that shall become the days that were. Afar from mine own self I seem, and wing Strange ways in thought, and listen for a sign: And still some heart unto some soul doth pine, (Whose sounds mine inner sense in fain to bring, Continually together murmuring) — 'Woe me for thee, unhappy Proserpine'.

The Abduction of Proserpine by Ulpiano Checa