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Later, Despoina was conflated with Kore (Persephone), the goddess of the Eleusinian mysteries, in a life-death-rebirth cycle. Karl Kerenyi asserted that the cult was a continuation of a Minoan goddess, and that her name recalls the Minoan - Mycenaean goddess ๐ ๐๐ช๐ต๐๐๐ก๐ด๐๐ , da-pu 2 -ri-to-jo,po-ti-ni-ja , i.e. the ...
“whereas the real name of the Maid [Kore] is Persephone, as Homer and Pamphos before him say in their poems, the real name of the Mistress [Despoina] I am afraid to write to the uninitiated.” [8] This indicates that Despoina’s true name was restricted to those initiated into the Arcadian mystery cults and thus alludes scholars today. [9]
Despoina and "Hagne" were probably euphemistic surnames of Persephone, therefore Karl Kerenyi theorizes that the cult of Persephone was the continuation of the worship of a Minoan Great goddess. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] It is possible that some religious practices, especially the mysteries , were transferred from a Cretan priesthood to Eleusis, where ...
Demeter and her daughter Persephone, the goddesses of the Eleusinian Mysteries, were usually referred to as "the two goddesses" or "the mistresses" in historical times. [13] Inscriptions in Linear B found at Pylos, mention the goddesses Pe-re-swa, who may be related with Persephone, and Si-to po-ti-ni-ja, [14] who is an agricultural goddess. [9]
The sanctuary of Despoina was recovered, and with it the fragments of Artemis, Anytos, the chest/robe of Despoina. [ 4 ] The bust is an acrolith, a composite of many different materials, of which the head, hands, and feet are made of local marble , but the chest and clothing are made of wood.
Demeter and Persephone were the two great goddesses of the Arcadian cults. According to Pausanias at Olympia they were called Despoinai ("mistresses", plural of Despoina ). [ 20 ] Demeter and Persephone were also called "Demeteres" as duplicates of the earth goddess with a double function as chthonic and vegetation goddesses.
A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: แผλευσฮฏνια Μυστฮฎρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystแธria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.
Perseis' name has been linked to Περσฮฏς (Persís), "female Persian", and πฮญρθω (pérthล), "destroy" or "slay" or "plunder". [citation needed]Kerenyi also noted the connection between her and Hecate due to their names, denoting a chthonic aspect of the nymph, as well as that of Persephone, whose name "can be taken to be a longer, perhaps simply a more ceremonious, form of Perse ...