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Grief

Goddess Demeter Strong and resilient I grieve with you, Loving mother For the life wrenched from your arms Sent down below. As the leaves rips off the trees And the gentle flowers wither May your rage sweep the lands May your daughter return swiftly

happy autumn equinox. never forget that the story of persephone and demeter is of heart wrenching grief.

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I made a Geno based on Persephone :³

Persephone! Geno or Kore! Geno 💀🥀

OG Geno by @/loverofpiggies

Shall I tell you the story of this character? •3•

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Have you thought of how your girlfriend is both sides of the grumpy x sunshine trope at the same time

Because when she’s with you she’s definitely grumpy and you’re sunshine, but with MJ she’s the sunshine side

Makes me think of how in Greek Mythos Persephone is both goddess of death but also of springtime(mostly left from being Kore)

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I dunno, she's pretty sunshine like constantly with me and MJ

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Reintroducing…

Kore Gharl AKA: Persie! 🥀

So, for those that have been around forever, like 3-4 years ago, you might remember her! Though Yume was my first WoL OC, my second was a Xaela woman Kore, but I lovingly called her Persie. She was originally of the Mol tribe, and she had pink hair and pink eyes. But since @meepsthemiqo asked about her lore the other day, I got brainworms and decided to recreate her and change up her looks and her lore a bit. So, here we go!

First, I changed her tribe to the Gharl tribe, as I thought it was fitting for her symbolism of being connected with the earth. Here’s the wiki entry for the Gharl, with a screenshot of the Gharl tribe from the cutscene of the Naadam:

Before each migration, the Gharl will fill a sacred urn with the soil of the place they just camped. This soil is then dumped upon arriving at the next location. This tradition has been carried out for thousands of years, leading people to believe that most the steppe is now all of one soil.

When the Tsagaan Sar ends, the Steppe holds a Naadam to decide who will be the new Khagan. The location of the dispute is revealed only at sunrise when the Gharl has scattered the soil.

Anyways, the next thing I decided to change was her looks, which I ultimately didn’t change much, outside of her hair and eyes. This is because she originally had pink hair almost identical in shade to Hali, but since I love Hali too damn much, and she is my only OC that I want to have pink hair, Persie had to get a makeover. I do think the brown hair and grassy green eyes are very earthy and suit her well.

Oh, and in case you’re noticing her name and nickname, yes, her Unsundered self is Persephone, and I had shipped her with Emet. I know I know, not the most original idea ever, but I tried to be a bit unique with her backstory.

Here’s a bit of her backstory, though I’m now reworking it so this is just a very short snippet: Kore was born to Arik and Zaya of the Gharl Tribe, and was their only child. Her mother died in childbirth and was raised solely by her father until he tragically passed away during a battle with a neighboring tribe, trying to protect her and the other children of the tribe. Due to the tragic loss of both of her parents at such a young age, she wanted to become a healer, and to save as many lives as she could. Kore is not a Warrior of Light like Hali is, but she does join the Scions in the course of the events of Stormblood. Her canon job is a hybrid job that I’m calling Shaman, and it’s a mixture of White Mage and Geomancer, with perhaps some other magic thrown in. I haven’t thought that through yet.

Oh and though we may all be hyped for Fanfest right now, feel free to send me asks about her if you’d like! She is also a new alt in game, which you can find her as Persephone Kore on Seraph (Dynamis, NA)! Thank you all so much for your interest in her! I might work on her more if I get more inspiration to.

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Romance Club MC's as Greek deities:

Vicky Walker as Persephone (or Kore):

Queen of the Underworld and Goddess of Spring ☠🌹🥀

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (also called Kore or Cora), is the daughter of Zeus, the chief god, and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture; she was the wife of Hades, king of the underworld. She is goddess of spring, the dead, the underworld, destruction, life, grain, and nature. True to her double nature, Persephone was imagined as having two homes: one on Olympus with her mother, Demeter, and the other in the Underworld with her husband. According to Homer, she also possessed sacred groves on the western edge of the world, near the entrance to the Underworld. Vicky was chosen to be Persephone because of the dichotomy of her story - Heaven's Secret, choosing between being Angel and Demon, similar to Kore/Persephone who also has two aspects, both related to life and/or death.

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hi there! call me krys. i'm a libra sun, in my late 20s, and i love to escape into writing. ultimately, my goal is to finish my novel, namesake, by the end of march, revise it throughout april, and spend the rest of 2023 querying until i land an agent.

please note that this blog is a side-blog. i follow, reply, like, and send asks from @briarroses!

greek mythology, fairy tales, science fiction, and fantasy have always burrowed closely within my heart, and really shaped the sort of writer i am now.

i chose my username because i write in what others have described as a "flowery, lyrical, or poetic” style.

a little about me: i recently started work at a new job that i love. i have two tabby cats who happen to be sisters and gorgeously precious. my fondness for flowers and plants tends to leak into my writing, more obnoxiously in namesake than anywhere else.

for me, writeblr is a sense of community and i love getting to read another person's craft and talk with them about their process. i'm less receptive to asks these days bc of how busy i am, but i do try to send out asks whenever i see games flooding my dash!

i'm also gay and will probably favour your female characters above all else.

you are always welcome to tag me in tag games or add me to a tag list of your wip if we are mutuals. (in fact, tagging me is a lifesaver bc i can't always check the dash anymore and i'm prone to missing things!) i'm not stingy about who i follow, although i personally try not to follow or engage with minors.

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summary: a hades and persephone myth retelling in which kore, newly dead, is taken to the underworld to rot as mortals do. when hades discovers she is the godly offspring of his older siblings, he tricks her into eating pomegranate seeds and siphons her abilities into his own domain, unleashing a curse that ultimately causes him to start to decay.

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summary: Nearly eight years prior, Lovey and Olly were rescued from a man they called “Bishop”, a serial killer who imprisoned their mother and raised them like his own. In the present day, a documentary about Bishop and his infamous slayings starts filming in their hometown. As the twins near their eighteenth birthday, true crime enthusiasts begin to reach out, requesting intimate insight of what really happened in Bishop’s cabin. While their grandfather, their now sole guardian, slowly loses his battle to grief, Lovey starts to keep track of how much of Bishop was implanted in Olly, and how to avoid the fate of a victim.

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Todays blog is on Persephone, Queen of the Underworld 🌹🥀🩸🌺💀🔥💐🍇🦋

The story of Persephone, the sweet daughter of goddess Demeter who was kidnapped by Hades and later became the Queen of the Underworld, is known all over the world. It is actually the way of the ancient Greeks to explain the change of the seasons, the eternal cycle of the Nature's death and rebirth. Persephone is understood in people's mind as a naive little girl who flows between the protection of the mother and the love of her husband. The myth of Persephone was very popular in the ancient times and it is said that her story was represented in the Eleusinian Mysteries, the great private and secret celebrations of ancient Greece.

Discover the myth of Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld

The abduction from Hades

According to Greek Mythology, Persephone, the queen of the underworld, was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of harvest and fertility. She was also called Kore, which means "maiden" and grew up to be a lovely girl attracting the attention of many gods. However, Demeter had an obsessed love for her only daughter and kept all men away from her.

The most persisting suitor of Persephone was Hades, the god of the Underworld. He was a hard, middle-aged man, living in the dark, among the shadows of the Dead. But his heart softened when he saw Persephone and was amazed by his youth, beauty and freshness. When he asked Demeter to marry her daughter, Demeter got furious and said there wasn't the slightest chance for that to happen. Hades was heart-broken and decided to get Persephone no matter what.

One day, while the young girl was playing and picking flowers along with her friends in a valley, she beheld the most enchanting narcissus she had ever seen. As she stooped down to pick the flower, the earth beneath her feet suddenly cleaved open and through the gap Hades himself came out on his chariot with black horses. Hades grabbed the lovely maiden before she could scream for help and descended into his underworld kingdom while the gap in the earth closed after them.

Desperately looking for Persephone

The other girls had not seen anything because everything happened very quickly. They didn't have a clue for the sudden disappearance of Persephone. The whole incident, however, had been witnessed by Zeus, father of the maiden and brother of the abductor, as well as by Helios, god of the Sun. Zeus decided to keep silent about the whole thing to prevent a fight with his brother while Helios wisely thought it better not to get involved in anything that didn't concern him.

A distraught and heartbroken Demeter wandered the earth looking for her daughter until her good friend Hecate, goddess of wilderness and childbirth, advised her to seek for the help of Helios, the all-seeing Sun god, in order to find her daughter. Helios felt sorry for Demeter, who was crying and pleading him to help her. Thus she revealed her that Persephone had been kidnapped by Hades. When she heard that, Demeter got angry and wanted to take revenge but Helios suggested that it was not such a bad thing for Persephone to be the wife of Hades and queen of the dead.

Trying to find a solution

Demeter, however, could not let it gone. She was furious at this insult and deeply believed that Hades, who after all had only dead people for company, was not the right husband for her sweet daughter. She also got angry at Zeus for not having revealed this to her. To punish gods and to grief, Demeter decided to take a long and indefinite leave from her duties as the goddess of harvest and fertility, with devastating consequences. The earth began to dry up,harvests failed, plants lost their fruitfulness, animals were dying for lack of food and famine spread to the whole earth, resulting in untold misery.

The cries of the people who were suffering reached Olympus and the divine ears of Zeus. The mighty god finally realized that if he wouldn't do something about his wife's wrath, all humanity would disappear. Thus he tried to find another solution to both calm Demeter and please Hades. He promised Demeter to restore Persephone to her if it can be proved that the maiden stays with Hades against her will. Otherwise, Persephone belongs to her husband.

The final solution

The crafty Hades learned this agreement and tricked his reluctant bride, who was crying all day and night from despair, to eat a few seeds of the pomegranate fruit. This was the food of the Underworld and every time someone ate even a few seeds of this, then, after a while, he would miss life in the Underworld. When the gathering in front of Zeus took place and Persephone was asked where she would like to live, she answered she wanted to live with her husband. When Demeter heard that, she got infuriated and accused Hades that somehow he had tricked her daughter.

A great fight followed and Demeter threatened that she would never again make the earth fertile and everyone on Earth would die. To put an ed on this quarrel, Zeus decided that Persephone would spend half months with her husband in Hades and half months with her mother on Olympus. This alternative pleased none of the two opponents, nevertheless that had no other option but accept it.

The explanation of the myth

Thus the lovely maiden Persephone became the rightful wife of Hades and Queen of the Underworld. During the six months that Persephone spent in the Underworld, her mother was sad and not in the mood to deal with harvest. Thus she would leave the Earth to decline.

According to the ancient Greeks, these were the months of Autumn and Winter, when the land is not fertile and does not give crops. Whenever Persephone went to Olympus to live with her mother, Demeter would shine from happiness and the land would become fertile again and fruitful. These were the months of Spring and Summer. Therefore, this myth was created to explain the change of the seasons, the eternal cycle of the Nature's death and rebirth.

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Overview

Persephone, often known simply as Kore (“Maiden”), was a daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Her mythology tells of how she was abducted by her uncle Hades one day while picking flowers. Demeter, distraught, wandered the entire world in search of her daughter.

When Demeter at last located Persephone in the Underworld, she demanded that her daughter be returned. But Hades had tricked Persephone into eating something—a handful of pomegranate seeds—while she was in the Underworld. Thus, although Persephone was allowed to spend part of the year on Olympus with her mother, she was forced to spend the other part of the year in the Underworld as Hades’ bride.

As the wife of Hades, Persephone was the queen of the Underworld. She was also associated with spring, girlhood, and marriage. Persephone was often worshipped alongside her mother, Demeter—for example, in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Etymology

Ancient authors sometimes sought creative etymologies for the name “Persephone” (Greek Περσεφόνη, translit. Persephonē). Plato, for example, interpreted the name as “she who touches things that are in motion” (epaphē tou pheromenou), a reference to Persephone’s wisdom (to touch things that are in motion implies an understanding of the cosmos, which is constantly in motion).[1]

Other ancient etymologies connected Persephone’s name with aphenos (“wealth”), phonos (“death”), and phōs (“light”). But these are folk etymologies that lack credibility.

Nowadays, Persephone’s name is often thought to have Indo-European origins. Robert Beekes and others have connected it to two Indo-European roots: *perso- (“sheaf of corn”) and *-gʷn-t-ih₂ (“hit, strike”). This would indicate that Persephone’s name means something like “female corn thresher.”[2]

Pronunciation

ENGLISH

GREEK

Persephone

Περσεφόνη (translit. Persephonē)

PHONETIC

IPA

[per-SEF-uh-nee]

/pərˈsɛf ə ni/

Alternate Names

The name Kore (Korē, “Maiden”) was commonly used as an alternative to “Persephone” and highlighted the goddess’s role as the daughter of Demeter, goddess of agriculture. Another alternate name, Despoina (“Mistress”), focused on Persephone’s role as the wife of Hades and queen of the Underworld.

There were several alternate forms of the name “Persephone” itself, including Persophatta or Persephatta (which may have been the original form of the name), Persephoneiē (the Homeric form), Pherrephatta, and Phersephonē.

Persephone’s Roman counterpart was called Proserpina or Proserpine.

Titles and Epithets

Persephone was known by numerous cult titles, including Sōteira (“Savior”) and Brimō (“Angry”). She also had a handful of epithets. These included epainē (“awful”), which stressed Persephone’s role as queen of the Underworld, as well as agauē (“venerable”), hagnē (“holy”), and arrētos (“she who must not be named”).

Attributes

There were two sides to Persephone. On the one hand, she was Persephone, wife of Hades and goddess of the Underworld, and thus a chthonic figure closely associated with the inevitability of death. On the other hand, she was Kore, the maiden daughter of the agricultural goddess Demeter, an alternate guise that brought her into the sphere of agriculture and fertility. In her ritual and mythology, Persephone/Kore was also regarded as a goddess of all aspects of womanhood and female initiation, including girlhood, marriage, and childbearing.

True to her double nature, Persephone was imagined as having two homes: one on Olympus with her mother, Demeter, and the other in the Underworld with her husband, Hades. According to Homer, she also possessed sacred groves on the western edge of the world, near the entrance to the Underworld.[3]

In her iconography, Persephone was represented as a young woman, modestly clad in a robe and wearing either a diadem or a cylindrical crown called a polos on her head.

Persephone was characterized by several attributes and symbols, most notably torches, stalks of grain or ears of corn, and scepters. More rarely, she was associated with pomegranates or poppies. Other attributes, such as the rooster, were more localized and tied to the iconography of specific cults.

Locri Pinax Of Persephone And Hades

Several scenes from Persephone’s mythology—especially her abduction by Hades—were popular among ancient artists.[4]

Family

In the standard tradition, Persephone was the daughter of Zeus, the king of the gods, and his sister Demeter, the goddess of agriculture.[5] But there were a handful of rival traditions surrounding Persephone’s parentage, including one in which she was the daughter of Zeus and Styx, an Oceanid who gave her name to one of the rivers of the Underworld.[6] The Orphic version of Persephone, on the other hand, was a daughter of Zeus and Rhea,[7] while an Arcadian version of Persephone called Despoina was the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon.[8]

Persephone krater Antikensammlung Berlin 1984.40

The so-called “Persephone Krater,” an Apulian red-figure volute-krater by the Circle of the Darius Painter (ca. 340 BCE). Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany. BIBI ST. PAULPUBLIC DOMAIN

Persephone was usually regarded as the only child born to Zeus and Demeter, but both gods had children with other consorts. Thus, Persephone’s half-siblings included Demeter’s other children (Arion, Corybas, and Plutus) as well as the numerous children of the promiscuous Zeus (including Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Heracles, Perseus—and many, many others).

Family Tree

Parents

FATHER

MOTHER

Zeus

Demeter

Siblings

BROTHERS

SISTERS

Arion

Apollo

Corybas

Dionysus

Heracles (Hercules)

Hephaestus

Ares

Hermes

Perseus

Aphrodite

Artemis

Athena

Consorts

HUSBAND

LOVERS

Hades

Adonis

Zeus

Children

DAUGHTERS

SONS

Erinyes (Furies)

Melinoe

Dionysus

Zagreus

Mythology

Abduction by Hades

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. The most detailed account of her myth comes from the second Homeric Hymn, also known as the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

This poem describes how Persephone was picking flowers in a meadow when she was abducted—with Zeus’ permission[14]—by Hades, the god of the Underworld and the brother of Demeter and Zeus (and thus Persephone’s uncle).[15] Later sources added that it was Aphrodite and Eros who caused Hades to fall in love with Persephone in the first place.[16]

Rape of Prosepina - Bernini 1621-22

The Homeric Hymn then tells of how Demeter, realizing her daughter was missing, began a desperate search. After wandering the entire earth, Demeter finally learned the truth from Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, who had happened to hear Persephone cry out before she disappeared.

Though Hecate did not know where Persephone had been taken, she told Demeter to seek information from Helios, the charioteer of the sun, who was the only witness to the crime. Sure enough, Helios was able to tell Demeter how Hades had abducted her daughter.[17]

Upon discovering that Hades had Persephone—and that Zeus himself had helped him kidnap her—Demeter was justifiably furious:

But grief yet more terrible and savage came into the heart of Demeter, and thereafter she was so angered with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos that she avoided the gathering of the gods and high Olympus, and went to the towns and rich fields of men, disfiguring her form a long while.[18]

Eventually, Demeter’s wanderings brought her to Eleusis, a town in the region of Attica, just northwest of Athens. Demeter arrived at the palace disguised as an old woman, where she was treated kindly by Queen Metaneira and King Celeus. In return, she nursed their sick child, known as Demophon in most versions of the myth,[19] and tried to make him immortal.

When Demeter’s efforts to impart immortality failed (the boy’s mother, Metaneira, inadvertently interrupted the process when she saw Demeter holding the child in a fire), Demeter commanded the Eleusinians to build her a temple. She then abandoned her functions as the goddess of agriculture, causing grain to stop growing and nearly starving humanity. Demeter’s terrible rage was ended only through the intervention of Zeus, who sent the messenger god Hermes to persuade Hades to return Persephone to Demeter.

Hades told Hermes he would release Persephone—as long as she had not tasted food while in the Underworld. He then tricked Persephone into eating a handful of pomegranate seeds. Because of this, Persephone could not leave Hades for good. In the end, a compromise was reached: Persephone would spend part of the year in the Underworld as Hades’ wife and the other part on Olympus with her mother, Demeter.[20]

Persephone in the Underworld

Persephone was the queen of the Underworld and so ruled over all mortals who had died. Though dreaded, she did sometimes listen to and grant requests. For example, she allowed the prophet Tiresias to keep his reasoning and prophetic abilities even in death.[21]

Persephone also featured in the myths of a handful of heroes and mortals who descended to and returned from the Underworld. According to one source, she was the one who allowed Orpheus to bring his dead wife Eurydice back from the Underworld, provided he did not look back while leading her up (a condition that Orpheus failed to meet).[22]

In another story, Theseus agreed to help Pirithous abduct Persephone from the Underworld, but they were caught and held prisoner. In some versions, Persephone eventually allowed Heracles to bring Theseus and Pirithous back with him when he came to the Underworld to fetch Cerberus (as part of his final labor).[23]

Persephone also featured in some versions of the myth of Alcestis. When Alcestis’ husband Admetus was told that he could put off his death if he found somebody willing to die in his place, Alcestis bravely volunteered. According to some authors, Persephone was so moved by this deed that she allowed Alcetis to return to the land of the living (in the more familiar version, though, Alcestis was brought back by Heracles).[24]

At least one person tried to take advantage of Persephone’s amenable nature. When Sisyphus wanted to escape death, he came up with a clever trick. He told his wife not to bury him; then, when he arrived in the Underworld, he convinced Persephone (though in some versions it was Hades) to let him return to the world of the living to punish his wife for neglecting his funeral.[25]

Lovers and Rivals in Love

The fact that Persephone was married did not prevent her from being imagined as a virginal maiden. There were, however, a handful of myths that challenged this persona.

According to some sources, Persephone vied with Aphrodite for the love of Adonis, an astonishingly handsome mortal man. Eventually, Zeus determined that Adonis would spend part of the year with Aphrodite and part of the year with Persephone.[26]

terracotta loutrophoros darius painter 340-330 bce

In another myth, Hades took a nymph named Minthe as his lover. When Persephone found out, she jealously trampled Minthe and turned her into a plant: garden mint.[27]

Orphic Mythology

The Orphics, an ancient Greek religious community that subscribed to distinctive beliefs and practices (called “Orphism,” “Orphic religion,” or the “Orphic Mysteries”), had their own unique mythology of Persephone.

According to several strands of Orphism, Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and his mother, the Titan Rhea (rather than Demeter). She was conceived after Zeus transformed himself into a snake to have sex with Rhea. When Persephone was born, she had a monstrous form, with numerous eyes, an animal’s head, and horns. Terrified, Rhea refused to nurse the child and fled. But Zeus transformed into a snake again and had sex with Persephone, whereupon she conceived the god often called Zagreus or Dionysus Zagreus.[28]

Worship

Temples

Persephone had temples throughout the Greek world, many of them shared with Demeter. The most notable of these was the Temple of Demeter in Eleusis, a huge, ancient temple likely built during the seventh century BCE. The famous “Eleusinian Mysteries,” religious rites honoring Demeter and Persephone/Kore, were performed there.

excavation-of-temple-to-demeter-persephone-eleusis-greece

Persephone shared many other temples with Demeter, though she also had several temples of her own; the one at Epizephyrian Locris (a Greek colony in southern Italy) is an important example.[29] At other sites, including Teithras in Attica,[30] Acrae in Sicily,[31] and the island of Thasos,[32] Persephone had a separate sanctuary called a Koreion.

Elsewhere, such as Cyzicus,[33] Erythrae,[34] Sparta,[35] Megalopolis in Arcadia,[36] and the Athenian deme of Corydallus,[37] Persephone was worshipped with the cult title Soteira, meaning “Savior.”

Festivals and Rituals

Just as Persephone shared many of her temples with Demeter, she also shared many of her festivals with her.

The most important festival of Persephone and Demeter, the Thesmophoria, was celebrated by married women throughout the ancient Greek world. In Athens, the Thesmophoria lasted three days and involved several rituals, including one in which the rotten remains of a slaughtered pig were dug up and placed on the altars of the goddesses.[38] The Thesmophoria was also celebrated in other parts of Greece, such as the region of Boeotia.[39]

Many of the festivals of Persephone and Demeter were related to the myth of Persephone’s abduction. At Eleusis, worshippers reenacted Demeter’s search for Persephone at night by torchlight. When Persephone was “found,” the ritual ended with celebration, torch throwing, and probably the sounding of a gong.[40] At Megara, similarly, worshippers reenacted Persephone’s abduction by a sacred rock called Anaklēthris, where Demeter was believed to have “called back” (anekalesen in Greek) Persephone when she passed by it during her search.[41]

In Sicily, sometimes said to have been the island from which Hades had abducted the goddess, Persephone was honored in a number of different festivals and rituals. The Korēs Katagōgē (“Descent of Kore”), for example, commemorated Hades taking Persephone (Kore) down to the Underworld.[42] Every year in the Sicilian city of Syracuse, Persephone was honored with the sacrifices of smaller animals and the public drowning of bulls.[43]

Another festival, called the Chthonia, was celebrated annually at Hermione, a city in the Argolid. It honored Demeter in her connection with Persephone, the queen of the Underworld. One part of the festival involved four old women who sacrificed four heifers with sickles.[44]

Other festivals celebrated Persephone in connection with the institution of marriage (rather than with Demeter and agriculture). This seems to have been how Persephone was honored at her temple in Epizephyrian Locris. In some Sicilian cities[45] and in the Locrian colony of Hipponion,[46] there were festivals celebrating Persephone’s wedding.

In Cyzicus, where Persephone was worshipped under the title Soteira, her festival was called either the Soteria,[47] the Pherephattia,[48] or the Koreia.[49] A festival called the Koreia appears to have also been celebrated in Arcadia[50] and Syracuse[51] (though the Syracusean Koreia was likely simply the equivalent of the Thesmophoria).

Persephone, both individually and together with other gods, was also honored through festival and ritual at numerous other sites, including Mantinea, Argos, Patrae, Smyrna, and Acharaca.

Other Worship: Orphism and Curse Tablets

The Orphics, who called Persephone either Despoina[52] or the “Chthonian Queen,”[53] worshipped her primarily in connection with the Underworld. They also associated her with salvation: it was believed that she would grant a blissful afterlife to those who had been properly purified.

Persephone was often invoked on curse tablets under her Underworld title Despoina. Curse tablets were engraved texts that called upon a god, usually a “chthonian” god associated with the Underworld (such as Hecate, Hermes, or Gaia), to punish or harm an enemy, who would generally be named in the text.

Pop Culture

Persephone has continued to captivate the modern imagination as the virginal yet terrifying queen of the Underworld. She has appeared in a handful of modern adaptations of Greek mythology, including Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians franchise, the 1990s TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and even the video game Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.

Together with Demeter, Persephone is also depicted on the Great Seal of North Carolina, where she is shown in a pastoral setting with the sea in the background.

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With Focus on OC x NPC Shipping, Fic Writing, Gposing, and Light RP

Main Blog: @starrysnowdrop - For WoL Hali Aloke; WoL/Aymeric and Azem/Hermes

Side Blog: @firelightmuse - For WoL Yume Aino; WoL/Zenos

Kore “Persephone” Gharl

OC Tag = oc: the blood lily

Non-WoL OC

Female Steppe Xaela Au Ra

Canon Job: Shaman (Original Hybrid of White Mage and Geomancer)

Character Profile **Coming Soon!**

Kore “Persephone” Gharl x Varis zos Galvus

Ship Tag = ship: bleeding love

In a Relationship since 4.0

Why Persie/Varis? **Coming Soon!**

Persie/Varis Ship Timeline **Coming Soon!**

Persephone x Emet-Selch (Hades)

Ship Tag = ship: within you

Eternally Bonded in Unsundered World

Not in a Relationship in Present

Unsundered Persephone Headcanons **Coming Soon!**

Additional Information

Find me in Game: Persephone Kore on Seraph (Dynamis)

Discord: starrysnowdrop

Ao3: starrysnowdrop

Varis Reblog Tag: imperial lover

Emet Reblog Tag: immortal gremlin

Updated as of Dawntrail Patch 7.0: 09/26/2024

[irisrainbowplumed]

Khaire, Korê! Spring maiden We welcome your full return Helios shines brightly down Artemis's forest animals chitter All delighted by your return You have rested through the months of spring And now arrive again as the loving daughter of the trees and flowers

happy summer solstice! this is a prayer ive written based on my beliefs in honor of kore/persephone.

eirene (bless)!

[artemis-potnia-theron]

***THIS BLOG IS 18+ ONLY. MINORS DNI***

TERFs/Dianic Wiccans are not welcome here.

Khaire 👋🫂

Welcome to my e-altar dedicated to Lady Artemis Potnia Theron 🌙🏹🦌

(complimentary devotional playlist included with your visit ⬇️)

About Me:

🌙 Taylor

🍄 Animist

🪷 They/Them

🦌 Adult (25+)

🏹 Oathbound devotee/worshiper of my beloved Patron, Divine Mother, and Queen; Mistress Artemis-Diana Potna Thea

💜 I honor my Sacred Lady in all her limitless forms and manifestations, including her Ephesian incarnation and the Nymphai

☀️ I praise the exalted Apollo(n) Musagetes as my Mother's divine counterpart. For this reason, he is as my Father to me, and I view the Mousai as extensions of him

🎭 I am a follower of the Liberator, Dionysos-Bacchus Agathus Daemon and frequently involve him in my worship of Artemis Hegemone

🪻 I honor Leto Koiêis AND Demeter Megala Mater as my lady's divine mothers

🌻 I honor Zeus Basileus AND Poseidon Patrus as my lady's divine fathers

🦁 I honor Sekhmet-Bast and Ninḫursaĝ Ninmaḫ as two of my mistress's symbolic divine ancestors

I synchronize many deities/spirits with my Lady and Queen (this is all personal practice - totally cool if your beliefs differ):

🕊 I am devoted to Mother Mary Theotokos as a form of hero worship, ancestor veneration, and as an extension of Artemis Aedoeus Parthenus (Revered Virgin) & Artemis Ephesia (Artemis of Ephesus) specifically in her 'Queen of Heaven' aspect

🌕 Selene Aiglê as synchronized with Diana Phôsphoros

🪽 Eileithyia Lysizona as synchronized with Artemis Orsilochia

🏵 Britomartis Diktynna as synchronized with Artemis Pôtnia Therôn (Mistress of Beasts)

🗝 Hekate Anassa Eneri as partly synchronized with Artemis-Diana Trivia

⛰️ Kybele Mater Oreîas as partly synchronized with Artemis Ephesia (Artemis of Ephesus)

🥀 I honor Persephone-Kore Megala Thea and Ereshkigal Irkalla as my queen's 'underworld' or 'Chthonian' aspects

Praise to divine Mistress Artemis, architect of my soul and eternal keeper of my heart.

She of the wolves and of the deer. She of the hunt and of the fire. Swift running archer who haunts the forest wilds and roams in the night. The cresent moon, her silver bow. She who dwells at the mountain peak. She of the Earth and the Heavens.

Bestower of death with her showering arrows. Strong-voiced worker from afar who whispers, “Kneel, or be knelt.” Beautiful empress who bears sword and reins on her golden throne. She of the lake, the marsh, and the harbor. Far-shooter. Light-bringer. Dawn-breaker.

Divine virgin, pure and revered, who soothes. Celestial midwife who nurses the young and patron of childbirth. She of the hymns and pastures. Singer of divine songs and leader of the dance. Sweet-garlanded lady of clamors. She of the white bird, the toad, and the berry seed. Bright goddess.

Beloved and loving high priestess of the bear's jaw, whose hymns only beasts can sing. Willow-bound and royal of cedar, walnut, and laurel. Immortal torch-bearer. Ancestral guardian who stands before the door.

Goddess queen of beasts and nymphs. Maiden. Death. Animal. Feral child. Holy mother. Praise be to Lady Diana, deliverer and savior.

Credits:

***user box by Aterios***

***Artemis divider by Renai***

My altar c: / Quote fragment from Sappho / Diana's Bath by Louis Devedeux / Diana the Huntress by Guillaume Seignac / Artemis in the 'Pastoral' section of Fantasia (unknown gif maker) / Detail of Artemis depicted as the Potnia Theron (Lady of the Beasts) from the Francois Vase / Fountian of Artemis (Diana) of Ephesus at Villa d’Este / Quote Fragment from Ursula K. Le Guin

[a-flowers-farewell]

On that Persephone note though- I’m such a choir junkie and added two songs that we’ve performed this semester to my playlist for her. I think they both kind of include the two sides of her (Persephone and Kore) and have that strong yet also subtle and gentle notes that I personally connect with Persephone

Bloom arranged by Philip E. Silvey

Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down arranged by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory

This is UPG!! Just thought I’d share it though if any other Persephone devotees had playlists for her too and wanted more songs to add to it!!

[astrology101]

Hades X Persephone 🥀🖤

The myth of Hades and Persephone is associated with the coming of Spring and Winter: the descent of Kore in the Underworld can be seen as an allegorical representation of the coming of winter when the land is not fertile and does not give crops, while her ascent to Olympus and the return to her mother symbolizes the coming of spring and the period of harvest.

The disappearance and the return of Persephone were also the theme of the great Eleusinian Mysteries, whose promised the initiates a more perfect life after death. Therefore, this myth and its relevant Mysteries explained the change of the seasons of Nature and the eternal cycle of death and rebirth.

Requested by @qveensteph 💫

[ofcpomegranates]

Persephone Anoixi | Thirty-Five | Florist | Magical 🥀

Persephone has an emotional attachment to all her flowers & plants. She knows that she has the ability to control their outcome so she tries her best to remain positive and optimistic to keep her plants alive & thriving. However when she’s stuck in a bad spell due to a bad day or her love life  her flowers start to decay it takes a deep emotional toll on Persephone and her mental health. She treats her plants like her children and when her plants begin to die she feels as if its her fault and it shatters her heart completely.

Persephone usually carries the scent of florals like sweetgrass and hints of sandalwood.

Kore is her nickname given to her as a child. Her parents still use it from time to time and some of her closer friends.

Even though she has business deal with Hades with her flower shop she doesn’t like handouts. most of the time she’d rather earn things on her own.

Persephone’s favorite flower is a blue narcissus. It was the first flower Hades had ever given her when they first met and since then no other flower has compared. However if she had to chose a close second it would the lily of the valley.

Much like her relationship with Hades Persephone’s mother can be a bit overbearing. Perse is in her mid thirties and yet she’s still getting lectures from her mother on how she thinks Hades is toxic for her. The thing is Persephone already knows this, but she can’t help but to be drawn to him time & time again.

Persephone feels most like herself when she’s amongst nature. It helps her feel more grounded & connected to the earth.

(trigger warning) Perse has SAD which stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder. Which is a type of depression that's related to changes in seasons. It usually begins and ends at about the same times every year. Her symptoms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping her energy and making her feel moody

Obviously her favorite season is spring. Persephone practically GLOWS during this time.

She can be extremely stubborn as all hell, but only when confronted with something she’s told she can’t do.

Persephone thrives when given her freedom and space! That doesn’t mean she likes being alone, but being under reign of her controlling mother most of her life she enjoys being able to be independent.

She thinks magic is a special gift but it frightens her the way Hades uses it. It’s something she’s yet to discuss with him yet though--at least not a serious conversation yet.

Kore is friendly as friendly come. She truly tries to see the best in everyone she meets. She wouldn’t even dare hurt a fly unless she absolutely had too--or by accident.

Her best friend is Hera. That’s her ride or die. She truly would do anything for her childhood friend.

She heavily admires Iracebeth Crims. She loves their talks and their shared love for flowers.

Her favorite colors are forest green & gold.

She’s head over heels for Hades, she’d do anything for him. However she knows how toxic their relationship can be. She’s not sure if he’s worth giving up yet considering he makes her feel on top of the world sometimes.

[lux-ace]

LO x Hadestown - Post Collection

[Edits]

LO Vidchats: Hadestown Reaction Time? by 💀Άδης™️

Dread Queen by ° a e s t h e t i c b i t c h °

"Inside my mind, tryna get things right..." - Hades [🎵] by ♌𝙺𝚘𝚛𝚎🌸abadeer🦁

[Fanart]

LO x Hadestown - Hades by 💀Άδης™️

“Singin la la la la la la la.” - Apollo/Orpheus by transantula🕷️

🌸=🍸 by morgan📖the🎨artist

(LO x Hadestown - Hermes by mike_is_insayne)

LO but w/ HT designs by 🐾tamiawolf🐺

If LO and HT had a baby. 🌺💖✨💖🌺 by 🇦🇷kuraginx🇳🇮

Lore Olympus but make it Hadestown by swordbendingboomerangs

LO x Ht - Persephone by 🥀ohaliarandaplayertoo🥀

👀💙👀🖤👀 by lemon🐦finch🍊

💃💖🔥💙🕺 by 💗niaart55🎨

Persephone in a 1947 House of Patou evening dress.

👸👗💖👗🌸 by kores🌼diary

[Cosplay]

"But this floral maiden also sends shudders of fear with one delicate footstep through all of Hell." - 🌺 by superradmua

plasmid.pinup edition:

Finished this beast of a dress for #katsucon2k20, time to sleep. 👸😴💖😴🌸 #hadestown

Why choose between Lore Olympus and Hadestown when you can have both?

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