CLAS104 Midterm: Demeter
16 Apr 2016
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"earth"; meter="mother: mom to persephone: two goddess making the grain harvet; ("kore"= "the girl" --> for daughter) Duttur & damu(her sons stuck in the underworld) Hades, takes her to underworld: demeter at eliusis (part of athens): disguises as an old lady, 4 daughters of king cleus finds and asks her to come look after prince. Hecate takes demeter to helius (who saw the kidnap, he is the god of the sun) , he thinks its ok cos she was taken by hades: aetion (intro) of the seasons, immortality & Deophoon god food (ambrosia) burns his mortality off, but the. Queen of eliusis stops and turns him immortal, they build a shrine as a sanctuary for demeter: persephone"s honours & Demeter"s rites: persephone has to return to hades every thrid of the year: aetion of the eleusinian mysteries: They are private, invited only and mostly underworld matters: ones a year for 9 days (days.
