Inktober 15: The Two Goddesses.So then all day long, being one in spirit,they warmed each other&
Inktober 15: The Two Goddesses.So then all day long, being one in spirit,they warmed each other’s hearts and minds in many wayswith loving embraces, and an end to sorrow came for their hearts,as they took joys from each other and gave in return.The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis.“Demeter’s origin as a grain goddess must lie in the Neolithic period with the advent of agriculture. Her name contains the Greek word for "mother”, but whether the initial syllable means “earth”, “grain”, or something else has long been debated. Homer had little interest in Demeter and none in her relationship with Kore (the Maiden), though Persephone appears in epic poetry as the bride of Hades. The queen of the dead (Attic Pherephatta) has a non-Greek name and must have been in origin a deity separate from Demeter’s daughter. Even after the two were firmly and inextricably identified, they were often paradoxically represented in cult as two distinct personages. Eleusinian iconography and terminology, for example, juxtaposed Thea, the underworld goddess, with Kore, the daughter. The Greeks avoided pronouncing or inscribing the ominous name Persephone in cult contexts, replacing it with Kore or other euphemisms, though such caution was less often exercised by the poets. Demeter and Kore were frequently worshiped together under such names as the Two Goddesses, the Thesmophoroi, or the Great Goddesses.“Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide by Jennifer Larson. -- source link
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