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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.
In Orphic tradition, Persephone is said to be the daughter of Zeus and his mother Rhea, who became Demeter after her seduction by her son. [23] The Orphic Persephone is said to have become by Zeus the mother of Dionysus / Iacchus / Zagreus, [18] and the little-attested Melinoë. [c]
Demeter drives her horse-drawn chariot containing her daughter Persephone-Kore at Selinunte, Sicily, 6th century BC. Demeter's daughter Persephone was abducted to the Underworld by Hades, who received permission from her father Zeus to take her as his bride. Demeter searched for her ceaselessly for nine days, preoccupied with her grief.
In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. [2] Bacchylides apparently had Hemera as the daughter of Chronus (Time) and Nyx. [3] In the lost epic poem the Titanomachy (late seventh century BC?), [4] Hemera was perhaps the mother, by Aether, of Uranus (Sky). [5]
A family is demanding answers after a Las Vegas father was shot and killed in his own home after calling police to report a potential home invasion. ... the video shows. Durham's 15-year-old ...
A 20-year-old man standing in the front yard started arguing, then pulled out a gun and opened fire, shooting a mother and father, ages 35 and 40, and their 13-year-old daughter, the release said.
Chilling video showed a Mississippi teen murder suspect's nonchalant attitude after allegedly shooting and killing her mother, with the girl seen texting following the act.. The kitchen ...
Erika di Nardo killed her mother and brother in 2001. Sef Gonzales, an Australian man who killed his father, mother and sister in 2001. Sarah Marie Johnson (1987–), an Idaho girl who was convicted of killing both her parents on the morning of September 2, 2003. Daniel Petric fatally shot his mother in 2007.