There are other lands outside Hellas where the gods have other names. Sisyphus taught me that all are one and the same. Before you came here, the Arcadians and Thracians didn’t call you Kore. They called you Despoina. In the easternmost islands of Hellas and the lands of Phrygia your name isn’t Persephone— it’s Perephatta. Beyond Phrygia, in the crescent land of the two rivers, you are called Ereshkigal. And in the desert sands, across the water to the distant south, you are called Nephthys and also Isis. The stories they tell about you are different, but The Lady Beneath the Earth is one and
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