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The worship of Demeter is well attested across Arcadia, through various epithets and sanctuaries. One particularly distinctive epithet she bore was Demeter Melaina (Ancient Greek: Δημητηρ Μελαινα), meaning “Black Demeter” and referring to an Arcadian version of her mythology.
In Arcadia Demeter Melaina (the black Demeter) was represented as snake-haired with a horse's head holding a dove and dolphin, perhaps to symbolize her power over the Underworld, the air, and the water. [44] [45] The cult of Demeter in the region was related to Despoina, a very old chthonic divinity. Demeter shares the double function of death ...
Demeter bears a torch in her right hand, and she has placed her other hand on Despoina. On her knees, Despoina has a scepter and what is called the Cista (box), which is held in her right hand. On either side of the throne, Artemis stands beside Demeter clothed in the hide of a deer, and having a quiver on her shoulders, and one hand there is a ...
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Phigalia or Phigaleia or Phigalea (Ancient Greek: Φιγαλεία or Φιγαλέα [1] or Φιγάλεια [2] or Φιγαλία [3]), also known as Phialia (Φιαλία [3] or Φιάλεια [1]), was an ancient Greek city in the south-west corner of ancient Arcadia, in the region of ancient Parrhasia [4] close to the frontiers of Messenia, and upon the right bank of the Neda, about ...
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In the mysteries Demeter was a second goddess below her daughter, the unnameable "Despoina". [29] It seems that the myths in Arcadia were connected with the first Greek-speaking people who came from the north during the Bronze Age. The two goddesses had close connections with the rivers and the springs.