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Demeter is notable as the mother of Persephone, described by both Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter as the result of a union with her younger brother Zeus. [83] An alternate recounting of the matter appears in a fragment of the lost Orphic theogony, which preserves part of a myth in which Zeus mates with his mother, Rhea , in the form ...
Cychreides (alternatively Kykhreides) was one of the pair of serpent dragons that pulled the Greek goddess Demeter's chariot. [ citation needed ] This chariot was later gifted to the hero Triptolemus to travel the lands spreading grain, resulting in the death of one of the serpents at the hands of King Charnabon of the Getae, however it is ...
Persephone is the wife of Hades and the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Hades only allows her to visit Demeter in the spring and summer and remain in the Underworld in the fall and winter. She is said to be able to "soften" Hades and make him more merciful. Unlike most minor gods, she sides with Olympus during the war against the Titans.
I appreciated the film’s willingness to take its time, but as Dracula knocks off one crew member after the next, we seem to be watching some rotely garish and not all that scary 19th-century ...
A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.
Kore and Despoina were known together with their mother Demeter as Despoinai, "the Mistresses", or Megalai Theai, "Great Goddesses". [6] Sometimes Demeter's daughters are conflated by ancient and modern writers; [7] however, Arcadian cults infer that there was a clear a differentiation. Pausanias, for example, explains:
Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture, harvest, crops, grains, fertility and food. She is a member of the Twelve Olympians. Subcategories.
The title character, played by an impossibly cool Wesley Snipes, is a “Daywalker”—a half-vampire with all of a vampire’s abilities and none of their weaknesses. Blade feels like a hybrid, too.