CLA204H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Eleusinian Mysteries, Ereshkigal, Inanna
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Chapter 10: myths of fertility i (demeter and related myths) Female power not only drove the origin of the world but also the continual pattern of renewal seen in plant and animal life, the ever-recurring creation of new offspring. Greeks associated the diverse phenomena as the fertility of soil, the reproductive capacities of wild animals and sexual attraction between men and women with divine beings who were female. Mediterranean world >goddess of the grain and rich harvest. Persephone"s name has no clear etymology often called kore daughter/girl : she is parthenos, an unmarried virgin. Many regarded the goddess as 2 aspects of a single figure, often called two demeters/two goddesses: the permanently fertile earth and the seasonal giver of grain. Observations of the myth of demeter & persephone: in ancient times was interpreted as an agriculture allegory in which hades was identified with earth and.
