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The relief is made of Pentelic marble, and it is 2,20 m. tall, 1,52 m. wide, and 15 cm thick. [4] It depicts the three most important figures of the Eleusianian Mysteries; the goddess of agriculture and abundance Demeter, her daughter Persephone queen of the Underworld and the Eleusinian hero Triptolemus, the son of Queen Metanira, [3] [4] in what appears to be a rite. [1]
Triptolemus and Persephone, tondo of a red-figure Attic cup. Instead, Demeter gifted Triptolemus a chariot drawn by winged dragons or serpents [13] and wheat, representative of the gift of agriculture. [12] Demeter taught Triptolemus the art of agriculture and shared with him how to conduct her rites and taught him her mysteries. [14]
When Triptolemus, while on his mission to introduce agriculture in various parts of the world, came to Thrace, he was at first hospitably received by Carnabon; but then the king treacherously seized his guest and was about to kill him. Triptolemus could not escape, as Carnabon had killed one of the dragons that pulled his chariot.
Triptolemus In Greek mythology , Eleusis ( / ɪ ˈ l j uː s ɪ s / ih- LEW -siss ) [ 1 ] or Eleusinus ( Ancient Greek : Ἐλευσῖνι , romanized : Eleusîni , or Ἐλευσῖνα , Eleusîna ) was the eponymous hero of the town of Eleusis .
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In Ovid's Fasti, [3] the baby was Triptolemus and not Demophoon, although in most other versions he was an adult by the time; some sources state that even his parentage was different. However, all versions agree that Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus the art of agriculture and, from him, the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops.
Now the youth [i.e. Triptolemus] was carried high over Europe and Asia. He turned his face towards Scythia where Lyncus was king. He stood before the king's household gods. He was asked how he had come there, and the reason for his journey, his name, and his country. He said 'Athens, the famous city, is my home, Triptolemus, my name.
The Bible was first translated into Castilian Spanish in the so-called Pre-Alfonsine version, which led to the Alfonsine version for the court of Alfonso X (ca. 1280). The complete Catholic Bible was printed in 1785, since the Inquisition had allowed Bible translations a few years earlier. A new version appeared in 1793.