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There is an archaic role for Persephone as the dread queen of the Underworld, whose very name it was forbidden to speak. In the Odyssey, commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC, when Odysseus goes to the Underworld, he refers to her as the Iron Queen. Her central myth, for all its emotional familiarity, was also the tacit context of the secret initiatory mystery rites of regeneration at Eleusis,[7] which promised immortality to their awe-struck participants-an immortality in her world beneath the soil, feasting with the heroes who dined beneath her dread gaze.
Persephone also figures in the story of Adonis, the Syrian consort of Aphrodite. When Adonis was born, Aphrodite took him under her wing, seducing him with the help of Helene, her friend, and was entranced by his unearthly beauty. She gave him to Persephone to watch over, but Persephone also was amazed at his beauty and refused to give him back.
When Hades pursued a nymph named Minthe, Persephone turned her into a mint plant.
Fffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
But she's nice...I don't know if I believe those. But I guess people can change.
Did I die on the plane over or something? ...This week has been weird.
Persephone also figures in the story of Adonis, the Syrian consort of Aphrodite. When Adonis was born, Aphrodite took him under her wing, seducing him with the help of Helene, her friend, and was entranced by his unearthly beauty. She gave him to Persephone to watch over, but Persephone also was amazed at his beauty and refused to give him back.
When Hades pursued a nymph named Minthe, Persephone turned her into a mint plant.
Fffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
But she's nice...I don't know if I believe those. But I guess people can change.
Did I die on the plane over or something? ...This week has been weird.