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... Persephone is con nected with Perse , Perseis , Perses , Perseus and Persaios - names of Hekate and her associates — and was probably used from pre - Greek times as a name of the queen of the Underworld ... Persephone The Rape of Persephone.
... Persephone is con nected with Perse , Perseis , Perses , Perseus and Persaios - names of Hekate and her associates — and was probably used from pre - Greek times as a name of the queen of the Underworld ... Persephone The Rape of Persephone.
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... Persephone back from the gloom and up to the gods and the light . Hermes obeyed and sprang from the Olympian abode down into the subterranean depths . There he found the lord of the palace at home . He sat leaning on the bed beside his ...
... Persephone back from the gloom and up to the gods and the light . Hermes obeyed and sprang from the Olympian abode down into the subterranean depths . There he found the lord of the palace at home . He sat leaning on the bed beside his ...
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... Persephone . According to them , this was not a case of a seduction carried out against the mother's will : it all happened - even Zeus's metamorphosis into a ser pent - as Demeter had intended , and at her instigation . This shows us ...
... Persephone . According to them , this was not a case of a seduction carried out against the mother's will : it all happened - even Zeus's metamorphosis into a ser pent - as Demeter had intended , and at her instigation . This shows us ...
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THE BEGINNING OF THINGS | 15 |
THE MOIRAI HEKATE AND OTHER PRE OLYMPIAN | 31 |
THE GREAT GODDESS OF LOVE | 66 |
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