Posts Categorized: Hades

ECSTASY AND LUNACY

Posted by & filed under Demeter, Greek Myths, Hades, kindle bargains, Persephone, Pomegranate.

“Something was not quite right. Demeter could sense it, impossible though it seemed, even as she embraced her beloved Persephone. ‘My child,’ she gasped, ‘surely you did not taste of any food while you were below? Tell me, and hide nothing.’  But Persephone had indeed tasted of the sweet enticing fruit of mortal life: Hades…
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THE RIVER STYX

Posted by & filed under Cerberus, Charon, Dante, Death, greek mythology, Hades, meaning of life, Myth, River Styx, Tartarus, Virgil.

TweetShare After death, according to Greek Mythology, souls descend down a cavernous path where the River Acheron, the river of woe, flows into the River Styx, the river of lamentation. The souls are then ferried across the Styx by a somber boatman, Charon. But Charon must be paid, so the Greeks placed a coin in…
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THE LESSER MYSTERIES, THE PRODIGAL SON, & THE GARDEN

Posted by & filed under Adam and Eve, Demeter, Garden of Eden, Greek Mysteries, Hades, Lesser Mysteries, Persephone, Prodigal Son, Zeus.

by Andrew Cort Tweet Share Demeter was away, and her daughter Persephone was playing with the other young goddesses in a meadow, filling baskets with beautiful flowers. She had no way of knowing that grim Hades, who had been walking on the surface to inspect the damage from an earthquake, had seen her, had been…
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