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i know i jape & jest, but if you actually, seriously villainize demeter in the myth of persephone & hades you only know about persephone & hades through social media/popular retellings and/or are a misogynist
rape tw , incest tw (it& #39;s greek mythology)
i promised myself i wouldnt go off on this but fuck past me
the original myth of persephone & hades is about a man who is obsessed with his niece. so he asks his brother (who raped demeter, PERSEPHONE& #39;S MOTHER) if he can marry her [1/?]
i promised myself i wouldnt go off on this but fuck past me
the original myth of persephone & hades is about a man who is obsessed with his niece. so he asks his brother (who raped demeter, PERSEPHONE& #39;S MOTHER) if he can marry her [1/?]
rape tw , incest tw
& zeus (king of the gods, serial rapist) says ok. in fact he gives hades permission to kidnap her. & he does.
in almost every translation of the original myth, persephone was taken against her will. in many she is raped.
demeter, naturally, freaks out. [2/4?]
& zeus (king of the gods, serial rapist) says ok. in fact he gives hades permission to kidnap her. & he does.
in almost every translation of the original myth, persephone was taken against her will. in many she is raped.
demeter, naturally, freaks out. [2/4?]
she completely neglects her duties searching for her daughter & starves the world. helios eventually tells her what happened persephone. demeter now intentionally starves the world so the olympians (mostly men) will listen
[3/5?]
[3/5?]
after at least year, zeus realizes that if all humans starve, there will be no one left to honor the gods. so when zeus asks hades to release persephone, it& #39;s not out of the goodness of his heart.
hades TRICKS persephone into eating the pomegranate.[4/7?]
hades TRICKS persephone into eating the pomegranate.[4/7?]
he tricks her into staying with him for half the year.
notice persephone has no autonomy. she& #39;s kidnapped & forced to live with her kidnapper & husband for half the year. the only reason why her situation isn& #39;t worse is because of demeter. her mother.
notice persephone has no autonomy. she& #39;s kidnapped & forced to live with her kidnapper & husband for half the year. the only reason why her situation isn& #39;t worse is because of demeter. her mother.
so if you don& #39;t see why demeter isn& #39;t the villain of this story, i do not know what to tell you.
and there is no & #39;original myth& #39; where persephone wanders into the underworld. the internet lied.
i understand why there are romantic retellings. i enjoy some of them.
and there is no & #39;original myth& #39; where persephone wanders into the underworld. the internet lied.
i understand why there are romantic retellings. i enjoy some of them.
people enjoy the powerful spring queen & her loving dead husband. they like that persephone chose to have power
but making demeter the villain? that tells me you either hate women or don& #39;t know shit about the actual myth
but making demeter the villain? that tells me you either hate women or don& #39;t know shit about the actual myth
this was an ancient greek myth, where teenage girls were married to men twice their age. i don& #39;t doubt that many mothers and daughters were afraid a strange older man would marry them (& possibly die young in childbirth)
so you can see why theres a myth where the god of the dead kidnaps & marries a young girl.
this thread was way longer than i thought it would be. i think i got it all out of my system. end thread (i think)
this thread was way longer than i thought it would be. i think i got it all out of my system. end thread (i think)