[94] The ideal afterlife destination believers strive for is described on some leaves as the "sacred meadows and groves of Persephone". Her name has numerous historical variants. The goddess has a vegetable-like appearance, and she is surrounded by dancing girls between blossoming flowers. Cartwright, M. (2016, March 24). [citation needed]. Therefore, Persephone’s time in Hades would not equate with winter in the agricultural season but, rather, with summer. At the beginning of the autumn, when the seeds of the old crop are laid on the fields, she ascends and is reunited with her mother Demeter, for at that time the old crop and the new meet each other. Also Called: Kore, the Maiden, the Mistress, the Iron Queen, the Pale Queen, etc. Her name is commonly derived from pherein phonon, "to bring" or "cause death," and the form Persephone occurs first in Hesiod (Theog. Vol I, pp. 473–474. His special interests include pottery, architecture, world mythology and discovering the ideas that all civilizations share in common. The Thesmophoria was a Greek-wide celebration of the goddess and her mother. Inscriptions refer to "the Goddesses" accompanied by the agricultural god Triptolemos (probably son of Ge and Oceanus),[83] and "the God and the Goddess" (Persephone and Plouton) accompanied by Eubuleus who probably led the way back from the underworld. As well as the names of some Greek gods in the Mycenean Greek inscriptions, also appear names of goddesses, like "the divine Mother" (the mother of the gods) or "the Goddess (or priestess) of the winds", who don't have Mycenean origin . 477–480 :"The Arcadian Great goddesses", The figures are unmistakable, as they are inscribed "Persophata, Hermes, Hekate, Demeter"; Gisela M. A. Richter, "An Athenian Vase with the Return of Persephone", Suidas s.v. [66] An image plate from the first palace of Phaistos, seems to be very close to the mythical image of the Anodos (ascent) of Persephone. The ceremony involved sinking sacrifices into the earth by night and retrieving the decaying remains of pigs that had been placed in the megara of Demeter (trenches and pits or natural clefts in rock), the previous year. Ancient History Encyclopedia Foundation is a non-profit organization. Eleusinian votive reliefby Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA). A famous 5th-century BCE relief slab from Eleusis depicts Demeter and Persephone (holding a torch) either side of Triptolemos. :). Cameron is a family name not the last name! [22] However it is possible that some of them were the names of original goddesses: As a vegetation goddess, she was called:[23][26], Demeter and her daughter Persephone were usually called:[26][27], Persphone's abduction by Hades[n 4] is mentioned briefly in Hesiod's Theogony,[29] and told in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Archaeological finds suggest that worship of Demeter and Persephone was widespread in Sicily and Greek Italy. [53], The Romans first heard of her from the Aeolian and Dorian cities of Magna Graecia, who used the dialectal variant Proserpinē (Προσερπίνη). Meanwhile, Demeter searched the earth for her lost daughter and though Helios (or Hermes) told her of her daughter’s fate, she, nevertheless, continued her wanderings until she finally arrived at Eleusis. I love most of the possible nicknames too (Percy and Sephy are my favorite ones). [43] The festival activities included dancing, probably across the Rharian field, where according to the myth the first grain grew. robed, often carrying a sheaf of grain. In a ritual, a child was initiated from the hearth (the divine fire). Nameberry is a registered trademark of Nameberry, LLC. Greek Mythology: Gods and Heroes - Iliad - Odyssey, Pagan Portals - Persephone: Practicing the Art of Personal Power, Queen of the Sacred Way: A Devotional Anthology In Honor of Persephone, Hades And Persephone: Curse Of The Golden Arrow, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. [37], In the myth Pluto abducts Persephone to be his wife and the queen of his realm (this is the myth which explains their marriage). The Greek popular religion, The Princeton Encyclopedia of classical sites:Despoina, Flickr users' photos tagged with Persephone, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Persephone&oldid=986067553, Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text, Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2019, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Pomegranate, Seeds of Grain, Torch, Flowers and Deer, "the gods fulfilled his curse, even Zeus of the nether world and dread Persephone." The people looking both to the sky and the earth shouted in a magical rhyme "rain and conceive". I joined NameBerry when I was 10, and in 4th grade we learned abt Greek mythology and I was the only one who could pronounce Persephone right. In favour of this argument is that in Greece’s climate seeds are sown in the autumn and quickly germinate to grow throughout the winter time. The most peculiar feature of the Minoan belief in the divine, is the appearance of the goddess from above in the dance. [90] During the 5th century BC, votive pinakes in terracotta were often dedicated as offerings to the goddess, made in series and painted with bright colors, animated by scenes connected to the myth of Persephone. A lot of ancient beliefs were based on initiation into jealously-guarded mysteries (secret rites) because they offered prospects after death more enjoyable than the final end at the gloomy space of the Greek Hades. Once the temple was completed, Demeter withdrew from the world and lived inside it; at the same time, she created a great drought to convince the other gods to release Persephone from Hades. Despoina (the mistress), the goddess of the Arcadian mysteries, is the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon Hippios (horse), who represents the river spirit of the underworld as a horse, as often happens in northern-European folklore. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 24 Mar 2016. I like Persephone as a middle name, but not a first name. poem 5), "For since she had not died through fate, or by a well-earned death, but wretchedly, before her time, inflamed with sudden madness, Proserpine had not yet taken a lock of golden hair from her head, or condemned her soul to Stygian Orcus." Persephone as a name for me sounds totally unthinkable, as the word "perse" in Finnish means "ass" and is very commonly used... © 2020 Nameberry.com. I'm actually really intrigued that someone actually named their daughter this with the nickname Sephy because I didn't know anyone else whose ever considered that an option, I've always only heard nn Percy to use. "(book 1, poem 8), "Island which Zeus, the lord of Olympus gave to Persephone;he nodded descent with his flowers hair. British novelist Tilly Bagshawe named her daughter Persephone Daphne Frideswide (Sefi). To rate names on Nameberry, please register for an account or log in to an existing account. In the Roman world the goddess was known as Proserpina. "[21], Of the four deities of Empedocles' elements, it is the name of Persephone alone that is taboo—Nestis is a euphemistic cult title[n 3]—for she was also the terrible Queen of the Dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was euphemistically named simply as Kore or "the Maiden", a vestige of her archaic role as the deity ruling the underworld. its a cute name when its said, but written, it looks like purse phone. Odysseus sacrifices a ram to the cthonic goddess Persephone and the ghosts of the dead who drink the blood of the sacrificed animal. I would consider this name as my DH's ideal name for a daughter.

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