CLT-3378 Lecture : 1.28.13.docx
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Doso=demeter=deo (meter=means mother: single characters referred to as many different names. Demeter misses her daughter so she doesn"t care if he is a good husband or not she just wants her daughter back. They don"t see the death of humanity as a good thing because they won"t have anyone to pray to them and make them feel like gods/goddesses so they compromise with demeter (humanity dying due to famine) Persephone eats the pomegranate seeds from hades (once you take something from the underworld or eaten then you always are a part of the underworld for part of the year). Assumption that the underworld is dark pit under the earth. 1/3 of the year with hades and 2/3 of the year with her mother. Eleusis: temple of where themis learn the secrets and become initiated (cult) Troy in modern turkey across from the aegean sea.