[ SECRET POST #5872 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5872 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Th. The common mythos most people know, which is "Kore is stuck in a garden, blissfully ignorant of the outside world, there is sneaking in to see what Demeter is hiding or to see if the tales of a locked-away beauty are true, and then shit goes to hell"

[meadowphoenix]

wow, that's.....nowhere in any actual classical myth of either demeter or persephone, ceres or proserpina. even in ovid, where the mess is frankly venus' (and eros') fault, the point is that proserpina is turning into another athena or diana and venus sees this as a lessening of her power. it's actually pretty important to both demeter and persephone's combined mystery cults that both have free rein of the earth.

i'm dying to know where this comes from? is there a fanfic or re-imagined novel? do you know the source?

eta: i will say though that when this reinterpretation was brewing on tumblr, people absolutely knew the real thing, and they were still casting demeter as an oppressive mother rather than an understandably frantic one.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I'd never heard that version. Not that I have exhaustedly read everything about Greek mythology, but how widespread is this one, I wonder? The version I read was that Persephone was out picking flowers with her friends when the ground opens up and Hades pops out to kidnap her. Demeter was blameless, perhaps until the point where she allowed barren winter to overtake the land while looking for her daughter.

[(Anonymous)]

I have never heard that version in my life.

[(Anonymous)]

Not even the version I learned in middle school social studies went like this...

[(Anonymous)]

That’s a new one on me. Are you sure that whoever told you that wasn’t mixing Persephone up with Rapunzel?