I totally love this. The Eleusinian mysteries was a festival celebrated at the autumn sowing in the city of Eleusis. She may appear as a mystical divinity with a sceptre and a little box, but she was mostly represented in the process of being carried off by Hades. They are the two Great Goddesses of the Arcadian cults, and evidently they come from a more primitive religion.

In the future, this could be a possibility, but it is actually one of my favorites! DH and I both adore Persephone, and it has been on our mutual list for quite some time. [96] Scholar Timothy Gantz noted that Hades was often considered an alternate, cthonic form of Zeus, and suggested that it is likely Zagreus was originally the son of Hades and Persephone, who was later merged with the Orphic Dionysus, the son of Zeus and Persephone, owing to the identification of the two fathers as the same being. Eleusinian votive reliefby Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA). Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to abduct her as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades.

[34] It was explained to Demeter, her mother that she would be released, so long as she did not taste the food of the dead. The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion (or Mysion) which was probably a mythical place.

[66] An image plate from the first palace of Phaistos, seems to be very close to the mythical image of the Anodos (ascent) of Persephone.

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Plutarch writes that Persephone was identified with the spring season[11] and Cicero calls her the seed of the fruits of the fields. Revisiting the Nature of Persephone in the Gold Leaves of Magna Graecia", "Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily", "Locri Epizephyrii, The Archaeological Site - Persephoneion, the Sanctuary of Persephone", "Reconstruction of interior of Sanctuary of Despoina", Online version at the Perseus Digital Library, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Martin Nilsson.

To each his own. [39] Plouton is lord of the dead, but as Persephone's husband he has serious claims to the powers of fertility. [91], The temple at Lorci was looted by Pyrrhus. [90] During the 5th century BC, votive pinakes in terracotta were often dedicated as offerings to the goddess, made in series and painted with bright colors, animated by scenes connected to the myth of Persephone. The identity of the two divinities addressed as wanassoi, is uncertain ": George Mylonas (1966) Mycenae and the Mycenean age" p. 159 : Princeton University Press. She became the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld. Persephone rarely appears in art before the 6th century BCE, and then she is usually shown with Demeter; often both wear crowns and hold a torch, sceptre, or stalks of grain.

[86] In 205 BC, Rome officially identified Proserpina with the local Italic goddess Libera, who, along with Liber, were strongly associated with the Roman grain goddess Ceres (considered equivalent to the Greek Demeter). Probably the original "guilty pleasure" name--for me at least! He would glow whenever we discussed this name because he liked its dark meaning, the nickname "Sephy", and its infrequent use as a given name.

Persephone (aka Kore) was the Greek goddess of vegetation, especially grain, and the wife of Hades, with whom she rules the Underworld. I have to say I love Persephone!

The myth of the abduction of Persephone was derived from the idea that Hades catches the souls of the dead and then carries them with his horses into his kingdom.

Well it's kinda a stretch but if you replace the ending with an a instead of an e you get Ona (Ah-Na) and I suppose that could work. This was the beginning of the celebrated sanctuary of Eleusis. The earliest depiction of a goddess who may be identified with Persephone growing out of the ground, is on a plate from the Old-Palace period in Phaistos.

It feels so much more interesting and substantial than Penelope - more along the lines of Hermione, which is another love of mine. F.Schachermeyer (1972), Die Minoische Kultur des alten Kreta, Stuttgart: "Hermes and the Anodos of Pherephata": Nilsson (1967) p. 509 taf. But I don't like or hate it. For the initiated, this union was the symbol of the eternity of human life that flows from the generations which spring from each other.[43][44]. "(book P, poem 12), Electra:"O Persephone, grant us indeed a glorious victory!" I have encountered only one other Persephone and her nickname was Percy. Written by Mark Cartwright, published on 24 March 2016 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. The ceremony involved sinking sacrifices into the earth by night and retrieving the decaying remains of pigs that had been placed in the megara of Demeter (trenches and pits or natural clefts in rock), the previous year. Meanwhile, Demeter searched the earth for her lost daughter and though Helios (or Hermes) told her of her daughter’s fate, she, nevertheless, continued her wanderings until she finally arrived at Eleusis. [29] This union seems to be a reference to a hieros gamos (ritual copulation) to ensure the earth's fertility. Therefore, Persephone’s time in Hades would not equate with winter in the agricultural season but, rather, with summer.

It is on permanent display in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

The origins of her cult are uncertain, but it was based on ancient agrarian cults of agricultural communities. "Charos" appears with his horse and carries the dead into the underworld. Finally, the myth of Hades’ abduction may also reference the Greek practice of girls marrying in their early teens, a loss to their mothers as Persephone was to Demeter. I love mythology names generally and the story behind this one gives it a wonderfully dark, mysterious undertone in my mind.

Thanks to the finds that have been retrieved and to the studies carried on, it has been possible to date its use to a period between the 7th century BC and the 3rd century BC. It was here, disguised as an old woman, that the goddess cared for Demophon (or Triptolemos, who would later give the gift of grain to humanity and teach farming), the only son of Metaneira, the wife of Keleos, king of Eleusis. Gantz, pp. The Thesmophoria was a Greek-wide celebration of the goddess and her mother.

[92] The importance of the regionally powerful Lokrian Persephone influenced the representation of the goddess in Magna Graecia. [15] As goddess of death, she was also called a daughter of Zeus and Demeter,[16] the river that formed the boundary between Earth and the underworld.

[13] The Orphic Persephone is said to have become by Zeus the mother of Dionysus, Iacchus, Zagreus,[10] and the little-attested Melinoe. This would never fly with my husband, not to mention our parents! The goddess of nature and her companion survived in the Eleusinian cult, where the following words were uttered "Mighty Potnia bore a great sun". I've always loved the idea of the nickname Sephie for it but always felt I couldn't use it because, though Sephy/Sephie's super cute, it still sounds too much like Stephie and I'm not a fan of Stephanie/Stephie which is what I figured people would hear and assume. [94] The ideal afterlife destination believers strive for is described on some leaves as the "sacred meadows and groves of Persephone".

[10], The epithets of Persephone reveal her double function as chthonic (underworld) and vegetation goddess.

Dance floors have been discovered in addition to "vaulted tombs", and it seems that the dance was ecstatic. I would consider this name as my DH's ideal name for a daughter.

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