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OOC: Contact
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arriving only and always to depart
Here is a secret: she doesn't like being Kore very much.
She loves her mother, couldn't stay sane without the sun on her face and wind in her hair and the warm, warm, warm growing earth under her feet and the life of Above. She's selfish, selfish as any other plant reaching for the sky and trying to be the very best, but ( Read more... ) -
OOC: Latin FTW
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
(Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.) -
korê khthonia
This is true: she loves her husband.
This is true: she never looks back as she leaves him.
Year after century after millenia; they walk hand in hand, in silence, until the sunlight shows. Persephone kisses him, sweet and lingering and I'll be back, she says with a smile as her hand presses against his face.
I promise and she turns away and she ( Read more... ) -
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They have a room. It's a nice room. Nice bed. A table with two chairs. A big window with a view of the lake and the trees. A cupboard. An ensuite bathroom, which is where Persephone currently is.
(she burnedTo be a tad more specific, the goddess is sitting on the floor with her knees hugged to her chest and her cheek pressed against ( Read more... ) -
OOC: Symbols (WiP)
Asphodel flower
Bat
Narcissus flower
Poppy
White rose
Flowers in general
Pomegranate
Young grain
Black poplars (as Death-goddess)
White poplars/aspens (as Goddess of Regeneration)
Four-pointed torch (for Elysium)
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OOC: essay extracts
From hereDuality is a driving force in many renditions of Persephone's story. In her younger years she is often called Kore, the grain or corn maiden, yet once she has made the terrifying transition into womanhood she is mostly referred to as Persephone. She also plays a role as the winter Goddess of the Underworld, who cyclically changes into the ( Read more... ) -
OOC: Persephone (poem by B. A. St. Andrews)
I.
They call me Daughter of Darkness,
Pomegranate Girl, call me
wanton, say I yielded foolishly
to some wild force surging through
curled fronds and came to harm
because I could resist no more
than Sibyls roused to madness
by Apollo's kiss. But there is
more to bitter sacrifice than this.
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OOC: A Version of Events
extracted from here.
Traditionally the story of Persephone is quite dark and violent, and paints the goddess as more of a victim than a strong young woman with opinions and desires of her own. The tale is usually told in such a way that Persephone is innocently picking wildflowers with her mother, the harvest goddess Demeter, when she is snatched ( Read more... )