At the moment when Pluto carried off Persephone, a swineherd called Eubuleus chanced to be herding his swine on the spot, and his herd was engulfed in the chasm down which Pluto vanished with Persephone.
A consciousness of the intimate connexion of the pig with the corn lurks in the legend that the swineherd Eubuleus was a brother of Triptolemus, to whom Demeter first imparted the secret of the corn.
Indeed, according to one version of the story, Eubuleus himself received, jointly with his brother Triptolemus, the gift of the corn from Demeter as a reward for revealing to her the fate of Persephone.
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That's one of the funniest things I've heard of in years!" Eubuleus growled, and shot a powerful energy bolt at Charon.
So, you still have this curse?" Eubuleus shook his head.
Accordingly at the Thesmophoria it was customary, in memory of Eubuleus, to fling pigs into the " chasms of Demeter and Persephone." (These chasms " may have been natural caverns or perhaps vaults.
The scholiast speaks of them also as adyta and megara.40) In these chasms or adyta there were supposed to be serpents, which guarded the adyta and consumed most of the flesh of the pigs that were thrown in.
The legend of Eubuleus seems to show that the ceremony commemorated the descent of Persephone to the nether world; and, if we are right in our interpretation of the name Kathodos as applied to the first day of the Thesmophoria proper, the ceremony described would naturally fall on that day.
