Classical Mythology
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 309 distressed. But the peaks of the mountains and the depths of the sea echoed with her im ...
(^310) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Thus Hecate spoke, and the daughter of Rhea of the beautiful hair did not answer but swif ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 311 Thus they spoke. And she, the queenly goddess, answered with these words: "Dear childre ...
(^312) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Soon they arrived at the house of Celeus, a man cherished by Zeus, and passed through the ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 313 ished before his time, for he was like the gods to look upon. And she would have made h ...
314 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS HADES AND PERSEPHONE AND HER EATING OF THE POMEGRANATE When they had finished and ceased fro ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 315 with a gentle and loving heart in your breast. Be not distraught. I among the immortals ...
(^316) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Thus he spoke. And wise Persephone was delighted and jumped up quickly in her joy. But he ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 317 the mighty lord, the host of many, leaped up and carried me away in his golden chariot ...
318 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS beside Zeus, who delights in the thunder, august and holy goddesses. Greatly happy is the on ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES^319 dies, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears much fruit." In this Greek hymn, the al ...
320 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The Departure of Triptolemus. Attic red-figure cup by Makron, ca. 480 B.C.; height 8V4 in. T ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 321 Hellenic deities, is the inspiration for a kind of worship that is generally desig- nat ...
322 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS to all, without secrecy or initiation or a fundamental mystic philosophy, how- ever religiou ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 323 in remembrance of the episodes described in the Hymn to Demeter. Thus there was a fast ...
324 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS It is difficult to agree with those who assert that Dionysus was completely excluded from th ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 325 THE FESTIVAL OF THE THESMOPHORIA Women generally played a dominant role in the religion ...
326 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and drastic variation of this eternal and universal archetype. The myth's sexual bla- tancy ...
DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 327 part of the ceremony of the Eleusinian mysteries, namely the partaking of a drink calle ...
CHAPTER 15 VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES HOMER'S BOOK OF THE DEAD The earliest surviving account of the realm of Ha ...
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