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Topic: Persephone (disambiguation)


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In Greek mythology, Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his wife.
However, Hades tricked Persephone into eating the food of the dead so Zeus decreeded Persephone would spend six months with Demeter and six months with Hades.
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  Persephone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek Περσεφόνη, Classical Greek Persephónē, Modern Greek Persefóni) was the queen of the Underworld, the Kore or young maiden, and the daughter of Demeter.
In the Olympian pantheon, Persephone is given a father: according to Hesiod's Theogony, Persephone was the daughter produced by the union of Zeus and Demeter.
Persephone and her mother Demeter were often referred to as aspects of the same goddess, and were called "the Demeters" or simply "the goddesses." The story of Persephone's abduction was part of the initiation rites in the Eleusinian Mysteries.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Hades   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Persephone's mother missed her and without her daughter by her side she cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine.
Hades tricked Persephone into eating six pomegranate seeds, which meant that she would be unable to leave the underworld even with the help of Zeus.
Persephone knew of her mother's depression and asked Hades to return her to the land of the living, on the condition that she would stay with him for six months a year, one for every seed she consumed.
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 Demeter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Anonymoused]
She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon.
Persephone became the goddess of the underworld when Hades abducted her from the earth and brought her into the underworld.
While Demeter was searching for her daughter Persephone, having taken the form of an old woman called Doso, she received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the King of Eleusis in Attica (and also Phytalus).
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In Greek mythology, Persephone ("per-SE-fo-neh") was the queen of the Underworld, the Kore or maiden, daughter of Demeter.
Her central myth, for all of its emotional familiarity, was also the back-story of the strange and secret rites at Eleusis, which promised immortality to their awe-struck participants - an immortality in her world beneath the soil, feasting with the heroes beneath her dread gaze.
In the Olympian pantheon, Persephone is given a father, and made the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
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 Demeter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the Olympian pantheon, Persephone became the consort of Hades (Roman Plutus, the underworld god of wealth).
The six months when the earth is barren are the summer months, since in Greece this is when all vegitation dies from heat and lack of rainfall.
While Demeter was searching for her daughter, having taken the form of an old woman called Doso, she received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the King of Eleusis in Attica (and also Phytalus).
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 All words on Reefer
Being pursued by her and was turned into a tree, from whose trunk Adonis was afterwards chest, she gave him into the care of Persephone, who, however, when with him again.
Whilst on earth, he was the one caused them to be slain--probably in sacrifice.
In the "Lamentations" in the Manchester saying, "Return, my husband," as she makes her way to the region of (Persephone), is also referred to, and the text seems to imply that given to him, namely, /Tumu-giba/, "son of the.
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 Aphrodite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Finally, Aphrodite claimed that the stress of caring for her son, depressed and ill as a result of Psyche's unfaithfulness, had caused her to lose some of her beauty.
Psyche was to go to Hades and ask Persephone, the queen of the underworld, for a bit of her beauty in a fl box that Aphrodite gave to Psyche.
Once there, Persephone offered her a feast but Psyche refused, knowing it would keep her in the underworld forever.
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 Persephone (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Persephone (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Persephone (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Persephone (disambiguation).
Here you will find more informations about Persephone (disambiguation).
The orginal Persephone (disambiguation) article can be editet
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 Marvel Universe:Wanted - Marvel Universe: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.
Kerosene (disambiguation) should be Captain Kerosene jstephens moved it to the wrong place.
Sabreclaw should be moves as he is not main universe character.
There is a list of disambig pages at special:disambiguations that shows the links to each page.
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 Persephone - OneLook Dictionary Search
Persephone : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
Persephone : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info]
Persephone : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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 Atlantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aristotle wrote of a large island in the Atlantic Ocean that the Carthaginians knew as Antilia.
Proclus, the commentator of "Timaeus" mentions that Marcellus, relying on ancient historians, stated in his that in the Outer Ocean (which meant all oceans, not just the Atlantic) there were seven small islands dedicated to Persephone, and three large ones; one of these, comprising 1,000 stadia in length, was dedicated to Poseidon.
Proclus tells us that Crantor reported that he, too, had seen the columns on which the story of Atlantis was preserved as reported by Plato: the Saite priest showed him its history in hieroglyphic characters.
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In the Breton custom the mother-sheafa large figure made out of the last Corn-mother and the Corn-daughter, the latter still unborn.
Thus giving birth to her successor, the reformed myth exhibits the conception of reappears from the ground, while the other has little to do but to weep and assumes that both personifications (Demeter and Persephone) are original.
But aftergrowth of a second personification may perhaps be explained as follows.
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Kerykes The Kerykes were one of the sacred Eleusinian families of priests that ran the Eleusinian mysteries during the Hellenic era.
They popularized the cult and allowed many more to be initiated into the great secrets of Demeter and Persephone.
Vernon also is the name of several places in France: Vernon, a commune in the Ardèche département Vernon, a commune in the Vienne département This is a disambiguation page; that 2d9 is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same
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 persephone - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found 14 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word persephone:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "persephone" is defined.
Words similar to persephone: cora, despoina, kore, more...
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 Persephone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 "Persephone" - search results on cRANKy™
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 Persephone - Marvel Database - a Wikia wiki
Persephone - Marvel Database - a Wikia wiki
It serves to clarify the difference between several closely named or closely related articles.
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