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| | Persephone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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. | | | 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. | | | She was innocently picking flowers with some nymphs—and Athena and Artemis, the Homeric hymn says—, or Leucippe, or Oceanids— in a field in Enna when he came, bursting up through a cleft in the earth; the nymphs were changed by Demeter into the Sirens for not having interfered. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone
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| | Persephone, Greek Goddess of Innocence and Queen of the Underworld |
| | Persephone, a Greek goddess known in her childhood by the name Kore (or Cora, meaning young maiden), was the only child of the union of Demeter (goddess of the bountiful harvest) and Zeus, the mighty king of the Olympians. | | | In Greek mythology Persephone, goddess of the soul, is the possessor of its dark and frightening wisdom. | | | Not that the goddess Persephone sloughed off any of her responsibilities as the Queen of the Underworld. |
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http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/greek_goddess_persephone.htm
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| | Persephone |
| | According to one version one day Persephone was in a lush meadow picking flowers when she came upon the hundred-blossomed narcissus that had been planted by the earth mother Gaia to please the god of death, Hades, who by others was Persephone's uncle. | | | Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, who is said to be one of seven wives of Zeus before he married Hera. | | | It seemed that Persephone, while walking in the garden of Hades, had eaten a pomegranate seed; she had been seen by Ascalaphus, a son of the nymph Styx; Ascalaphus had recounted the incident, and Persephone therefore had to remain in the underworld. |
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http://www.themystica.com/mythical-folk/articles/persephone.html
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| | Find Your Goddess Archetype - Persephone |
| | Persephone type woman is more attracted to the spiritual nature rather than the physicality of her partner. | | | Persephone (Kore) was forced to live in the Underworld for part of the year. | | | In the myth of Persephone, young Kore was plucking flowers in a field when Hades, her uncle and god of the Underworld, abducted her to be his Queen in the dark world below. |
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http://goddess-power.com/persephone.htm
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| | Persephone, Greek Mythology Link. |
| | As he slept Persephone stood by him and declared that she alone of the deities had not been honored by Pindar with a hymn, but that Pindar would compose an ode to her also when he had come to her. | | | And she also knows because the MOERAE themselves persuaded her to lay aside her wrath and moderate her grief; for at the time, Demeter the Black, as the Phigalians of Arcadia surnamed her because of her attire, was letting all the fruits of the earth perish, and the human race die through famine. | | | Since that condition, which Zeus had mentioned, could not be fulfilled, Persephone remained in the Underworld, married to its lord Hades. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Persephone.html
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| | Mythography The Greek Goddess Persephone in Myth and Art |
| | Sources for Greek mythology usually claim that Persephone was the daughter of two Olympian gods, Zeus and Demeter. | | | Hereafter, Persephone, who was previously known as Kore ("the maiden") is regarded as the spouse of Hades, and she inhabits the Underworld with him for part of the year. | | | The goddess Persephone was known as Proserpina in Roman mythology. |
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http://www.loggia.com/myth/persephone.html
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| | The Myth of Persephone: Greek Goddess of the Underworld |
| | Persephone: Three Essays on Religion and Thought in Magna Graecia. | | | The concept of Persephone's rape is also covered extensively in the footnotes of the Library (Bibliotheca), which was written in the 1st or 2nd century CE, yet attributed to the earlier Greek scholar Appolodorus (c. | | | She recalled a declaration Zeus had made from the heavens up above: in order for Persephone to return to the home and life she had known, the young goddess must be as pure as the day she left her mother's side. |
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http://www.mythicarts.com/writing/Persephone.htm
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| | the abduction of PERSEPHONE > anthy.com WINTER edition |
| | "Persephone is the beautiful, innocent young daughter of Zeus, king of the gods, and his sister, the goddess Demeter. | | | The story of Persephone's abduction begins with Hades, king of the underworld, who for a long time had been asking his brother Zeus to help him find a wife. | | | But it is in her role as Demeter's daughter, not Hades's wife, that Persephone was worshiped. |
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http://anthy.com/mythology.html
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| | Odyssey/Greece/Mythology |
| | Because Persephone had eaten from Pluto's garden, she had to spend part of the year in the Underworld and part on earth with her mother. | | | Pluto, god of the Underworld, wanted to marry Persephone and asked Zeus's permission to do so. | | | The gods also wanted Zeus to persuade Pluto to let Persephone go, because the humans would starve without any crops. |
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http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/perseph.html
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| | The Goddess Persephone |
| | This story is told by Hesiod in the "Hymn to Demeter" which describes the seizure of Persephone by Hades, the grief of Demeter, her stay at Eleusis, and her vengeance on gods and men by causing famine. | | | Answer: When Persephone was attracted to the narcissus flower she came to a spot on the boundary between life and death. | | | Persephone and Adonis do have a common nature, but Adonis came to the Greeks from the near east and he came late. |
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http://www.fjkluth.com/persephone.html
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| | The First Born: A reflection on the Sacred Daughter |
| | The Orphics say that, as a child, Demeter hid Persephone away from the Gods in a primordial cave. | | | Hekate and Persephone are intimately associated, and, in truth, there seems little to separate the two Goddesses - they are each an only female child (according to Hesiod), holding honours in the three realms. | | | Cross-culturally, we know that it is common for the holy one to 'die' to the profane tradition, to become 'dead to the world' in order to be reborn and transformed. |
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http://www.templeofdemeter.com/persephone.html
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| | Demeter and Persephone |
| | One of these was his sister Demeter, who by him, had Kore, later known as Persephone, the dying and reviving daughter. | | | In the more popular version, it is said that the God of the Underworld Hades, who is Demeter's brother, once saw Persephone and fell deeply in love with her. | | | Persephone is 'given' to her Uncle by her Father |
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http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/paolicchidemeter/demeter.html
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| | Greek Mythology: PERSEPHONE Goddess Queen of the Underworld, Spring Growth ( also Kore Core Proserpina ) w/ Pictures |
| | Haides and Persephone inflicted Thebes with a deadly plague, probably as punishment for King Kreon's refusal to allow the burial of the dead warriors of the army of the Seven Against Thebes. | | | In one obscure myth Persephone was accredited with creation of mankind from clay (in place of the usual Prometheus). | | | No one else has ever contrived this, once death’s dark cloud has enveloped him and he has come to the shadowy place of the dead and passed the black gates which hold back the souls of the dead, for all their protestations. |
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http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Persephone.html
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| | CUUPS RE - Demeter/Persephone Puppet Show |
| | The mortals called it "Spring," and they were joyful at the renewal of life and food in the world. | | | Hermes took Zeus' message to Hades, who was strangely pleased by his request to see Persephone. | | | Bring Persephone to me, or else all the mortals will die of starvation. |
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http://www.cuups.org/content/resources/re/puppetshow.html
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| | Persephone * The Immortals * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant |
| | But, when Persephone returns from the underworld to walk the earth again, Demeter pours forth the blessings of Spring to welcome her beloved daughter home. | | | Hermes was sent to the house of Hades by Zeus to reason with Hades. | | | 10.491...Kirke (Circe) tells Odysseus that he must go to the house of Hades and Persephone and seek out the ghost of the dead prophet, Teiresias |
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http://www.messagenet.com/myths/bios/persephone.html
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| | Paghat's Garden: Pomegranate Myths |
| | It was the fruit of Kore the Maid, or Persephone, whom even as an underworld divinity was beautiful & kind. | | | In another version, she was cast into Hades for pretending to the beauty of Hera, & lived as a gloomy nymph of an underworld pomegrante forest from which Persephone's only winter meal was plucked. | | | To ancient Persians the pomegranate symbolized invincibility in battle, extending the fruit's authority over death. |
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http://www.paghat.com/pomegranatemyths.html
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| | Persephone |
| | Persephone is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology. | | | Hades grudgingly agreed, but before she went back he gave Persephone a pomegranate (or the seeds of a pomegranate, according to some sources). | | | Persephone was such a beautiful young woman that everyone loved her, even Hades wanted her for himself. |
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/persephone.html
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| | Persephone: Queen of the Dead |
| | Persephone and the Dead (the chthonic Persephone) | | | The maidens were the Oceanids, and (according to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter) Athena and Artemis, too. | | | So there's Hades thinking, "Ah, yes, a lovely opportunity to take my wife to her new kingdom," and there's Persephone thinking, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" |
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http://www.paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Persephone.html
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| | I eventually found myself in Kigiirpaku Limis, the major holy site on Persephone, and home to seven million priests, acloytes, confessors and attendant bureaucrats. | | | For a long time, the priests of Naminalus was concerned only with fellow believers on Persephone, Harvosette and Strouden. | | | But now, as the old faith in Gekashiishaa fades away, the Queen - a strong believer - is urging the priesthood to spread the faith, to help restore Balance throughout the Regency, and eventually - especially - throughout the ex-Imperial Wilds. |
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http://www.mu.org/~joe/traveller/archive/Rice_Papers/AWP-00074-Persephone.txt
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| | Persephone |
| | Get a beautiful certificate declaring that you are a witch, priestess, priest, high priestess, high priest, or shaman of Persephone. | | | Pr Ntr Kmt is a church for witches and other pagans based on ancient practices, especially ancient Egypt. | | | May the Goddess grant YOU love, peace, joy, bounty, and wisdom. |
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http://www.teenwitch.com/DEITY/GREEK/PERSEPH.HTM
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| | Persephone - History for Kids! |
| | Persephone was the daughter of the goddess Demeter. | | | Finally she went to her brother Zeus, who was also Persephone's father, and asked him to help find Persephone. | | | He took her under the ground to his kingdom, the land of the dead, and told her that he wanted her to be the Queen of the Underworld and marry him. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/persephone.htm
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| | The Baldwin Project: For the Children's Hour by Carolyn S. Bailey |
| | You shall have them all, Persephone, if you will only live with me in my palace. | | | At last King Pluto heard of the terrible blight upon the earth. | | | She hastened to finish her tasks, and she came home—to find the house empty, and Persephone gone! |
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http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=bailey&book=hour&story=persephone
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| | Hades and Persephone |
| | In Greek mythology Persephone is the goddess of the Underworld. | | | Before she went back to her mother Hades had given her pomegranate (or in the other version seven pomegranate seeds) to eat. | | | The other version of this myth says that it was Hermes who gave Persephone pomegranate to eat. |
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http://hannibal.hannotations.com/hades.html
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| | Persephone - Best of Sicily Magazine |
| | Having lost her daughter to this dark realm, Demeter descended into sorrow, losing interest in the mortals and their agriculture, and Zeus had to intervene to bring an end to the famine that resulted from this abandonment. | | | In his Hymn to Demeter, Homer recounts the story of Persephone. | | | While gathering flowers in the Valley of Enna, Persephone, who is also known as Kore (Greek for "maiden") was abducted by Hades and taken to the underworld. |
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http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art45.htm
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| | in the barren season |
| | posted by persephone at 3:28 AM 16 comments | | | posted by persephone at 10:44 AM 14 comments | | | posted by persephone at 2:34 AM 0 comments |
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| | OKCupid! The Mythological Goddess Test / Persephone |
| | Although Persephone did have a brief crush on Adonis, she nevertheless remained true to her macabre husband, just as he remained faithful to her. | | | At length Hades was persuaded to surrender Persephone for one half of every year. | | | Persephone, the wife of Hades, was the Greek Goddess of Death and the Underworld as well as the Goddess of Spring and Summer. |
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http://www.okcupid.com/tests/describescore?testid=3992216679008205011&category=1
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| | Adonis, Demeter & Persephone, Dionysus |
| | But Persephone then learns that because she ate the pomegranate, she is eternally linked to Hades, and will have to spend a few months with him in the Underworld each year. | | | The principal ancient source for this story is the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which begins with the first scene below, the abduction of Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter (Ceres), the goddess of grain and agriculture, by Hades, god of the Underworld. | | | Another says that Aphrodite made an arrangement with Persephone, goddess of the Underworld (see the next story for more on her), to share Adonis; he must spent four months with Persephone in the Underworld, four months on the surface with Aphrodite, and he was free to choose where to spend the remaining four months. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/Course/mythology/0700/dionysus.htm
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| | Persephone |
| | So Persephone and her many sisters looked within for the duration of the Age of Man, | | | Then it was the People would become Sisters and Brothers to the Stars themselves. | | | What could it have been they were describing? |
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| | Persephone Books |
| | You can see a complete list of Persephone Books and order online here. | | | Pat Jaffé, the author of Women Engravers (1990), wrote this article especially for The Persephone Quarterly. | | | Years ago, asked to write a book on women wood engravers, I was silly enough to think the subject ill-conceived, and almost turned the commission down. |
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http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/persephone_quarterly/archive/99_winter_01.htm
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| | Persephone on Encyclopedia.com |
| | PERSEPHONE [Persephone] or Proserpine, in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, goddess of fertility and queen of the underworld. | | | Though Demeter eventually persuaded the gods to let her daughter return to her, Persephone was required to remain in the underworld for four months because Pluto had tricked her into eating a pomegranate (food of the dead) there. | | | When she was still a beautiful maiden, Pluto seized her and held her captive in his underworld. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/P/Persepho.asp
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| | Godess Persephone - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Godess Persephone |
| | In one version she ate the fruit at the behest of Pluto as she was leaving; in another she took it while walking in Pluto's garden, but was seen and reported by Ascalphus, son of a nymph of the Styx. | | | Zeus had ruled that Persephone could be granted complete release if she had abstained from food in the underworld, but she had consumed a pomegranate seed. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Godess+Persephone
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| | Classical Myth: Persephone: Images |
| | She is also known as Proserpine (Roman), and Kore, which is also transliterated as Core or Cora and translated as the Maid or the Maiden. | | | Persephone is the Queen of the Underworld and the daughter of Demeter. | | | Her attributes in iconography can include a torch, a crown, a sceptre, and stalks of grain. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/persephone_i.html
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| | Ask Persephone |
| | In the myth, Persephone, spirited away by the King of the Underworld, transforms from maiden to wife, from daughter to queen. | | | But no one thinks to ask Persephone how she feels about the changes she experiences. | | | A wholistic approach to balance through life's transitions. |
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http://www.askpersephone.com
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| | Goddess Symbols: Persephone symbols and myths. |
| | It is not surprizing that many of our icons representing the mysteries of rebirth are derived from the ancient goddess symbols of Persephone. | | | Persephone (also known in her youth as Kore and the Roman goddess Prosperina) is often represented by symbols associated with the coming of spring. | | | Spring, wreath of flowers worn in hair, torch, reeds, waterfalls, rivers and springs |
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http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/goddess_symbols_persephone.htm
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| | www.myspace.com/goddesspersephone |
| | I am currently in Europe for vacation till the last day of the year. | | | Hey Persephone, just want to say Hi, give me a call whenever you are in town, or call me whenever you want. | | | persephone is a singer/songwriter who currently resides in dayton, ohio. |
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http://www.myspace.com/goddesspersephone
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| | WLGR |
| | Hermes stopped and brought her where fair-crowned Demeter was waiting beside her fragrant temple [at Eleusis]. | | | The Homeric Hymn to Demeter describes in detail how Hades, god of the underworld, stole Persephone, how her mother searched for her and hid the seed within the earth until she got her daughter back again. | | | So Aidoneus spoke, and wise Persephone was delighted, and in her joy swiftly rose up from the bed; but Aidoneus gave her to eat the sweet seed of a pomegranate, furtively, looking out for himself to keep her from spending all of her days here on earth with revered black-robed Demeter. |
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http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-religion393.shtml
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| | Persephone's World -- Home of a Goddess> |
| | Welcome to Persephone's World - a rather mystical little world in the cyberspace universe. | | | Though it is deceptively small, you will find much to see here, worlds within a world - a Goddess Gallery, Egyptian Temple, Animals, Dragons, Faeries, the Underworld, and much more! | | | Join me in Care2.com's Race for the Big Cats! |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2781
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| | Taken By Love [the Hades/Persephone fanlisting] |
| | [source: "Persephone." Encyclopedia Mythica from Encyclopedia Mythica Online. | | | She was the beautiful daughter of Zeus (Jupiter), king of the gods, and Demeter (Ceres), goddess of the harvest and fetility of the Earth. | | | Also that the fountain Arethusa in fleeing underground from the god of a stream, saw Persephone (Proserpine) sad but unalarmed, the powerful queen of the monarch to the realms of the dead. |
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http://forsaken-faith.org/taken/myth.php
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| | Persephone (The Matrix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The character takes her name from the Persephone in Greek mythology, who is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter whom Hades took to the underworld to be his queen. | | | On the contrary, some fans believe that Persephone, her husband the Merovingian, the Trainman, and his other acolytes were absorbed by Smith not long after she and her husband revealed to Morpheus and Trinity Neo's location in the Mobil Avenue Station and were subsquently freed after Neo destroyed Smith for the second time. | | | She seems bored with her existence in the Matrix, and is disaffected from her husband (possibly because of his dalliances). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone_(The_Matrix)
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| | Persephone |
| | In the Greek myth, Persephone is kidnapped by the god of the dead, Hades, and taken to the underworld. | | | The central figure is the Greek goddess Demeter's daughter, Persephone. | | | A compromise, granted by the god Zeus, allowed Persephone to live 2/3 of the year with her mother (resulting in fertile crops) and 1/3 of the year with Hades (resulting in barrenness). |
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http://www.uca.edu/cfac/art/seymour/catalogpages/infopages/persephone.htm
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| | Latin 1 - Mythology - The Underworld - Hades |
| | Since Hades was always in the Underworld, he did not sit with the other gods in Olympus. | | | Hades represented the finality of death and, as a result, was little seen among mortals or other gods. | | | Hades, Tartarus, Elysian Fields, Persephone, Styx, Cerberus, Dis, King of the Dead, pomegranate. |
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http://www.dl.ket.org/latin1/mythology/1deities/underworld/hades.htm
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| | Persephone |
| | Persephone was the Greek goddess of the Underworld and the wife of Hades. | | | When she learned her daughter's fate, she pleaded with Zeus to obtain the release of Persephone. | | | Unfortunately, Persephone had eaten some seeds of a fruit during her stay in the lower world, and this stopped her from leaving forever. |
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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/persephone_seasons.html
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| | Pluto and Persephone |
| | Finally she learned of her daughter's fate, and pleaded with Jupiter, who happened also to be the father of Persephone, to obtain the release of Persephone from the dark kingdom of the underworld. |
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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/mythology/gods_n_goddesses/Pluto/Pluto_Persephone_2.html
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| | Persephone (Spinsterhood) |
| | I had thought Persephone might have been taken from one of the moon's of Jupiter, many of which are named after characters from Greek/Roman mythology, as is the case with Ganymede. | | | Persephone accused Ganymede of abandoning her sacred vow of celibacy and her mission against Tyrant, and the two briefly struggled against each other until Jakar arrived and broke it up. | | | Base of Operations: The Spinsterhood shrine on an unnamed moon of Jupiter |
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http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/perse2.htm
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| | FictionPress.Com Story : Persephone, Act I |
| | :/ This was a prologue, and a reflection of Persephone’s thoughts. | | | Broken Persephone felt his very life being drained out of him, the liquids of his veins dissipating, disintegrating.... | | | But Lucian had told him it had always been this way. |
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http://www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1592039
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| | Major Greek Goddesses |
| | Hera is most well known for being the wife of Zeus and the Queen of the Gods. | | | Demeter was also the mother of Persephone (see below). | | | Centuries ago Greeks used to break bread in the name of Demeter as well as drink wine to Dionysus. |
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| | SICKCHIXXX.COM PRESENTS MISTRESS PERSEPHONE * hot goth woman * |
| | She brings the stunningly erotic qualities she is known for in photos to life onstage for her fans. | | | Among her galleries you'll find corseted cuties in steamy embraces, statuesque beauties having their feet worshiped, and naughty nurses at play with a Wartenburg Wheel. | | | "The reigning queen who presides over this dark paradise is Mistress Persephone, a Latin fetish goddess whose looks are a combination of Rita Hayworth, Betty Page and Tura Satana. |
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http://www.sickchixxx.com
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