Red Berries Photograph - Persephones Return 2 by Elizabeth Tillar

Persephone's Return 2 is a photograph by Elizabeth Tillar which was uploaded on May 18th, 2015.

Persephone's Return 2

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.... more

by Elizabeth Tillar

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Title

Persephone's Return 2

Artist

Elizabeth Tillar

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Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.

XLIV. Demeter and Persephone

"DIONYSUS was not the only Greek deity whose tragic story and ritual appear to reflect the decay and revival of vegetation. In another form and with a different application the old tale reappears in the myth of Demeter and Persephone. Substantially their myth is identical with the Syrian one of Aphrodite (Astarte) and Adonis, the Phrygian one of Cybele and Attis, and the Egyptian one of Isis and Osiris. In the Greek fable, as in its Asiatic and Egyptian counterparts, a goddess mourns the loss of a loved one, who personifies the vegetation, more especially the corn, which dies in winter to revive in spring; only whereas the Oriental imagination figured the loved and lost one as a dead lover or a dead husband lamented by his leman or his wife, Greek fancy embodied the same idea in the tenderer and purer form of a dead daughter bewailed by her sorrowing mother...."

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May 18th, 2015