[Sca-cooks] It's over ... and what I would do differently

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Some folks are mixing their Greek and their Roman. The original story is Greek.
The victim is Persephone, daughter of the goddess Demeter, who was 
aided in her search by the youthful goddess Hekate (yes, youthful - 
Greek Hekate was between Persephone and Demeter in age). Persephone 
had been abducted by Hades. Despondent she refused everything offered 
to her in the Underworld, but finally succumbed to a plate of 
pomegranate seeds and she stayed in the Underworld one month for each 
seed she ate.

The Romans had rather different deities, but because they wanted to 
be associated with the Greeks who they looked up to, they created a 
false parallelism between the Roman deities and the Greek. Because of 
the Romans and the subsequent Renaissance Europeans who followed the 
Romans' lead, we moderns often have the Roman and Greek deities 
rather blenderized in our minds.

In the Roman version, the daughter is Proserpine. But in reality the 
Roman Ceres and the Greek Demeter are quite different as were the 
Roman Pluto and the Greek Hades, just as the Roman Venus and the 
Greek Aphrodite have *very* different characters, as do the Roman 
Mars and the Greek Ares.

For clarity i restrict myself to the original Greek names of those in 
this originally Greek story.
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita