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theawkwardvelociraptor:@therkalexander spacefroggity:Are ancient greek burial rites too niche for...

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Are ancient greek burial rites too niche for notes I’m sorry

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Accidentally swallows the coin I was buried with and gets left on the dock for eternity because I couldn’t pay the ferryman

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insomniacfanfictionaddict:I do believe that was both. Dam you temptress !!therkalexander:You voted...

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I do believe that was both. Dam you temptress !!

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I hooked these pomegranate earrings into my tichel and I love it.

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Still Life

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noirsongbird:-A summary of Greek mythologythesupersass:When in doubt: yes, Zeus, you are the...

noirsongbird:

-A summary of Greek mythology

thesupersass:

When in doubt: yes, Zeus, you are the asshole

latent-thoughts:

Zeus logic.

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kata-chthonia:

I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?

And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?

Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?

Abducted, yes.
Demeter mourned? Definitely.
Rape, no.

So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.

Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)

Here’s a link to another book that talks about Persephone’s rise to power as a result of her willingly eating the pomegranate seeds.

Oh shit!!

Here’s a whole bunch of myths and hymns that talk about her Queen of the Underworld badassery!!

Holy pug tacos Batman!!

Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!

All these fucking books!  What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?

A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.

JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU

I don’t often reblog posts of people getting owned, but when I do…

man the ancient greeks didn’t dare to speak persephone’s name she was that powerful and venerated (they called her Kore, “the maiden”), hades didn’t get that honour

Rebagel for those book links, I find the Persephone and Hades stuff on here fascinating and I want to research it more

Book links, owning and the sheer badassery that is Persephone.

reblog forever

Reblogging for the links until this misapprehension finally ceases.

See also: Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth and Predatory Goddesses, both by classicist Mary Lefkowicz.

Since people are saying links are broken, here’s a bibliography of scholarly sources is intended to help refute many of the old, tired arguments about Hades and Persephone:  https://honorthegods.tumblr.com/post/174794576611/honorthegods-hades-and-persephone-side-

Wow what a surprise that a xenos doesn’t look at the Greek texts to understand what’s happening and is in the mythology Tumblr boat only for the aesthetic, with no regards to the actual people of the culture :) Wow it’s the first time I see that! wowwww (ok you got the irony)

Do those people also not realize that “rape” originally meant “to abduct”? As in, Hades abducted Persephone?

Yeah they really don’t. Hence the reason why I wrote this thing about 100k notes of discourse ago….