ANTC15H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Eleusinian Mysteries, Ereshkigal, Inanna
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Goddess of grain and the rich harvest. Often called kore, meaning daughter or girl. She is a parthenos, an unmarried virgin. Demeter and persephone were often called the two demeters or the two. Goddesses: the permanently fertile earth and the seasonal giver of grain. Hades, lord of death, abducts persephone after she reaches for the sweet scented blossoms on the ground and carries her away as his bride. Demeter enraged, refused to allow the grain to grow until a compromise was reached by which persephone spends a third of the year in hades" house and two thirds in the world above. Persephone cried to zeus while she was being abducted but only perses and lord helius heard her and hecate as well. Hyperion is the one that tells demeter that hades abducted persephone. Daughters of celeus and metaneira: callithoe, callidice, demo, and. Demeter fed the child with ambrosia, food of the gods. Hermes goes to hades to rescue persephone.
