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The ideal afterlife destination believers strive for is described on some leaves as the "sacred meadows and groves of Persephone". Other gold leaves describe Persephone's role in receiving and sheltering the dead, in such lines as "I dived under the kolpos [portion of a Peplos folded over the belt] of the Lady, the Chthonian Queen", an image ...
This list includes names of mythical creatures such as the griffin, lamia, siren and unicorn, which have been applied to real animals in some older translations of the Bible due to misunderstandings or educational prejudices of the Greek and Latin translators.
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: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.
When Hades abducted Persephone, they failed to save the girl. In her rage, Persephone's mother Demeter turned them into winged creatures. White raven: A black one Apollo Clinis' son Lycius, now a raven with a white plumage, informed Apollo that his pregnant lover Coronis had been unfaithful to him. In rage, Apollo turned the white raven into a ...
Articles relating to the goddess Persephone, the queen of the underworld in Greek mythology. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 ...
His sacred animals include the donkey, the guard dog, and the crane. Among his creations was the armor of Achilles . Hephaestus used the fire of the forge as a creative force, but his Roman counterpart Vulcan was feared for his destructive potential and associated with the volcanic power of the earth.
References to the sacred creatures recur in texts of Second Temple Judaism, in rabbinical merkabah ("chariot") literature, in the Book of Revelation in the Christian New Testament, and in the Zohar. According to Jewish and Christian traditions, there are four living creatures, although their description varies by source.
The lamb is now the most important of these, and its meaning is either the same as before or, more frequently perhaps, it is symbolic of Christ the expiatory victim. The dove is the Holy Spirit, and the four animals that St. John saw in Heaven [3] are used as personifications of the Four Evangelists.