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Persephone
« Thread Started on Apr 8, 2006, 12:47pm »

Persephone, a planet named for a goddess by some other poor houndan who’s parents, like mine, beat into him an appreciation for the ancient languages of Earth-That-Was.

Greek. Persephone was a beloved and beautiful maiden of the light who caught the eye of Hades, God of the Underworld. He stole her away while she was picking flowers to be his queen. She was rescued, but not completely. She was told to take no food or drink in the Underworld, or she’d have to stay. Hades gave her a pomegranate. Just before she passed back into the light, she ate four seeds. Just four. But because of the way things work with the gods, those four seeds became four months of the year that she had to stay in the blackness with her new husband. Persephone’s mother, Demeter, loves her daughter and despairs the months when she’s gone, creating winter and thus the other seasons in their unavoidable cycle.

Just a primitive explanation for the change of the seasons, perhaps, but perhaps more. Consider that Persephone knew the consequences of eating in the Underworld and had practically escaped when she ate just a few pomegranate seeds. I like pomegranate as much as the next chap when I can find it, but why take the risk? Unless, of course, Persephone didn’t fully want to go back to her life in the World of Light. Honestly, except for the initial kidnapping, Hades was by all accounts a standup guy. Maybe the prospect of leaving the lack behind forever didn’t appeal to her. Maybe after being there, she couldn’t just go back to dancing and picking flowers like she did before in her other life. I understand that well enough.

What was spring like on Earth-That-Was? I know what the poets said about it, what they say about it still, though they’ve never seen it. What does it even mean now, “spring,” with so many planets in their different rotations? It’s spring on my half of Osiris now, fall on the other. And here on Persephone, on the Docks, it’s the height of summer. On Earth-That-Was, that would mean Demeter and her daughter were together, and that the mother hadn’t yet started to despair her child leaving again. Do you remember my name where you are, ma mi? I remember yours.

Voice journal, end entry.

« Last Edit: Apr 8, 2006, 12:49pm by Del »

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