CLCV 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Demeter (Satellite), Appeasement, Eleusinian Mysteries
19 May 2014
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It is a destruction story; the wrath of a god. Pattern: offence against the god, god"s anger, human destruction, appeasement (new rituals or honors) One example from this chapter is hades and persephone. She was angry because when she was bathing the baby in the fire, his mom (metaneira) stopped her. To the humans, she sent a terrible year, a plague for the earth and its harvest. He tells hermes to go to hades and convince him to bring persephone back up from the underworld so that demeter would hopefully stop punishing the humans. Persephone will spend 1/3 of the year in the underworld with hades and the other 2/3 with. Also, demeter is promised by zeus whatever honors she chooses to possess among immortals. An allegory is seeing someone in a different way. Understood as an allegory when hades is identified as earth and persephone as grain buried under the earth.
