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  2. Persephone - Wikipedia

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    The location of this mythical place may simply be a convention to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past. [35] After Persephone had disappeared, Demeter searched for her all over the earth with Hecate's torches. In most versions, she forbids the earth to produce, or she neglects the earth and, in the ...

  3. Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone, Cyrene

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    The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya is located on a coastal plateau of Libya, beyond the boundaries of the city (extramural). In approximately 630 BC Greeks from the island of Thera colonized Cyrene. Other Greek colonists not long after increased the population, thus transforming Cyrene into what was regarded as ...

  4. Persephone in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Persephone is depicted as goddess of life in Sacrifice; In Elite: Dangerous, Persephone is the name given to the game's fictional depiction of the hypothetical Planet Nine in the Sol system, a world made largely of ice but with no atmosphere. In Skylanders, Persephone gives Skylanders upgrades in exchange for gold and is the most powerful fairy.

  5. Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore (Syracuse) - Wikipedia

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    The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore was a sanctuary in ancient Syracuse in Sicily, Magna Graecia, dedicated to Demeter and Kore ().. The sanctuary was founded on the Ortygia in the Piazza Archimede.

  6. Necromanteion of Acheron - Wikipedia

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    The Nekromanteion (Greek: Νεκρομαντεῖον) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hades and Persephone. According to tradition, it was located on the banks of the Acheron river in Epirus, near the ancient city of Ephyra. This site was believed by devotees to be the door to Hades, the realm of the dead.

  7. Pluto (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Augustan poet Vergil says that Pluto is the father of the Furies, [40] but the mother is the goddess Nox , [41] not his wife Persephone.The lack of a clear distinction between Pluto and "chthonic Zeus" confuses the question of whether in some traditions, now obscure, Persephone bore children to her husband. In the late 4th century AD ...

  8. Proserpina sarcophagus - Wikipedia

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    The ancient myth of the Rape of Persephone is depicted in high relief on the sarcophagus. Persephone is carried away to the underworld by Pluto, the god of the underworld, with the help of Athena and Eros, on a quadriga led by the divine messenger Hermes. The hellhound Cerberus is found at Hermes' feet near the death god Tartarus.

  9. The Goddess Girls - Wikipedia

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    In Persephone the Grateful, Persephone helps Minthe with the Cocytus River, but the rest of the MOA think she smells bad, like the river. Minthe is briefly jealous of Persephone but in the end she becomes Persephone's friend and stays with her in the Underworld. Persephone gave her a garden of mint. Hecate is a goddessgirl of Witchcraft. She is ...