Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Demeter was the Greek goddess of harvests and fertility. Her daughter Persephone stood for spring. Their story explains the agricultural cycle in Greek religion: why the earth dies in winter and comes back in summer.
It is also a drama between a mother and a daughter, stretched across the world of the living and the world of the dead. Out of this story grew the Eleusinian Mysteries, secret rites that promised initiates hope in the face of death.
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- 2Hades carries off the girl
- 3Pomegranate seeds settle her fate
- 4At Eleusis, hope after the darkness
- 5The grain that dies to be reborn
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary6 terms explained in a tap.
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