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near Sparta: Cult of Demeter and Kore, the Demeters ( Δαμάτερες, "Damaters"). According to Hesychius, the feast lasted three days (Thesmophoria). Persephone was conflated with Despoina, "the mistress", a chthonic divinity in West-Arcadia. [103] The megaron of Eleusis is quite similar to the "megaron" of Despoina at Lycosura. [98] Demeter is united with her, the god Poseidon, and she bears him a daughter, the unnameable Despoina. [117] Poseidon appears as a horse, as usually happens in Northern European folklore. The goddess of nature and her companion survived in the Eleusinian cult, where the words "Mighty Potnia bore a great sun" were uttered. [101] In Eleusis, in a ritual, one child ("pais") was initiated from the hearth. The name pais (the divine child) appears in the Mycenean inscriptions. [98] To what extent one can and must differentiate between Minoan and Mycenaean religion is a question which has not yet found a conclusive answer" . [112] Edmonds III, Radcliffe G. (2004). Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-52183434-1. Welch, Anthony (2013) The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past, Yale University Press. ISBN 0300178867.

The figures are unmistakable, as they are inscribed "Persophata, Hermes, Hekate, Demeter"; Gisela M. A. Richter, "An Athenian Vase with the Return of Persephone" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 26.10 (October 1931:245–248)Farnell, Lewis Richard (1906) The Cults of the Greek States, volume 3 (chapters on: Demeter and Kore-Persephone; Cult-monuments of Demeter-Kore; Ideal types of Demeter-Kore). Despoina and "Hagne" were probably euphemistic surnames of Persephone, therefore Karl Kerenyi theorizes that the cult of Persephone was the continuation of the worship of a Minoan Great goddess. [109] [110] It is possible that some religious practices, especially the mysteries, were transferred from a Cretan priesthood to Eleusis, where Demeter brought the poppy from Crete. [111] Besides these similarities, Burkert explains that up to now it is not known to what extent one can and must differentiate between Minoan and Mycenean religion. [j] In the Anthesteria Dionysos is the "divine child". Mythology [ edit ] Abduction myth [ edit ] Sarcophagus with the abduction of Persephone. Walters Art Museum. Baltimore, Maryland

Nilsson, Martin (1967). Die Geschichte der Griechische Religion[ The Stories of the Greek Religion] (in German). Vol.I. pp.462–463, 479–480. In the Orphic "Rhapsodic Theogony" (first century BC/AD), [62] Persephone is described as the daughter of Zeus and Rhea. Zeus was filled with desire for his mother, Rhea, intending to marry her. He pursued the unwilling Rhea, only for her to change into a serpent. Zeus also turned himself into a serpent and raped Rhea, which resulted in the birth of Persephone. [63] Afterwards, Rhea became Demeter. [64] Persephone was born so deformed that Rhea ran away from her frightened, and did not breastfeed Persephone. [63] Zeus then mates with Persephone, who gives birth to Dionysus. She later stays in her mother's house, guarded by the Curetes. Rhea-Demeter prophecies that Persephone will marry Apollo. This prophecy does not come true, however, as while weaving a dress, Persephone is abducted by Hades to be his bride. She becomes the mother of the Erinyes by Hades. [65] In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, the gods of Olympus were bewitched by Persephone's beauty and desired her. Hermes, Apollo, Ares, and Hephaestus each presented Persephone with a gift to woo her. Demeter, worried that Persephone might end up marrying Hephaestus, consults the astrological god Astraeus. Astraeus warns her that Persephone will be ravished and impregnated by a serpent. Demeter then hides Persephone in a cave; but Zeus, in the form of a serpent, enters the cave and rapes Persephone. Persephone becomes pregnant and gives birth to Zagreus. [66]Tripp, Edward, Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology, Thomas Y. Crowell Co; First edition (June 1970). ISBN 069022608X. Huge boobs Kore Goddess takes you home to meet her boyfriends 10 months ago 28:46 XXXDan lingerie bbw