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I have read (and see) something about Hades and Persephone having chickens in the underworld, but this is really a fact or is something invent?
Chickens were indeed sacred to Hades and Persephone and an example of this are the terracotta votive tablets from Locri -the ones of the pictures-. There are some books about this subject like Iconography of Religions by Bianchi or Locrian Maidens by Redfield.
The cock/chicken “became the chthonic bird, and was used on tombs, as emblematic of the hope of a reawakening to life”. (Peters) and it is also refered as “an infernal animal of passage” by Bernabe in his book Instructions for the Netherworld: the orphic gold tablets.He also says: ”Cocks allude to the world of the afterlife: as intermediaries between the soul and the Beyond, they intercede between the world of the dead and that of the living”.
Remember Persephone was the goddess of renewal, so at least in Locri, the cock was an usual attribute of her. And in other cultures cocks-chickens were seen as animals related to renewal and life (eggs have that symbolism tooo).
:D so. chickens for Hades and Persephone all the way.
I KNEW chickens were sacred, I just didn’t know to whom
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
“To intercede between the world of the living and that of the dead, as intermediaries between the soul and Beyond.”
“You mean…to get to the Other Side?”
“….yes.”
XD oh my
@coloricioso You have no idea how happy I am to see the underworld chicken discourse here again
