CLSA 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Metanira, Homeric Hymns, Pomegranate
30 Jul 2016
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Demeter, devastated, starts searching for her daughter: pain seized demeter"s heart. Her hands tore the dark purple veil off her ambrosial hair, and she wrapped a dark garment of mourning over her shoulders, then swooped like a bird over dry land and sea. Helius reveals to her that hades has carried persephone away. Enraged, demeter takes the form of an old woman and wanders the earth: her form was disguised, and nobody, low-waisted woman or man, discerned at a glance the divinity hidden within her . She arrives at eleusis and receives hospitable welcome by celeus, the ruler of. The child would grow miraculously: every night she would plunge him like a firebrand into the flames, all unknown to his own dear parents. , but demeter was unable to complete the ritual because metaneira interrupted her. Anxious for her small son, screaming in grief, she said: o.
