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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'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'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'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'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's kidnapped & forced to live with her kidnapper & husband for half the year. the only reason why her situation isn't worse is because of demeter. her mother.
notice persephone has no autonomy. she's kidnapped & forced to live with her kidnapper & husband for half the year. the only reason why her situation isn't worse is because of demeter. her mother.
so if you don't see why demeter isn't the villain of this story, i do not know what to tell you.
and there is no 'original myth' 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 'original myth' 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't know shit about the actual myth
but making demeter the villain? that tells me you either hate women or don'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'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)
