Mythology "says Sallust (86-34 BC) "These things do not ever occurred, but they are always"
The mythological world is very charming and picturesque, with its divine and human heroes, strong or weak as invincible creatures more common. In the previous post I mentioned
Proserpina: his legend wants to be the explanation of the alternation of the seasons.
According to legend, Ceres (Demeter to the Greeks) daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and sister of Jupiter, father of union with Zeus, Persephone (Persephone or Core from the greek = girl), and lived quietly with her in Sicily. Persephone was a beautiful girl.
One day, while she was picking flowers near Mount Ales, was spotted by Pluto (Hades) god of hell, which he loved and kidnapped her leading her to his kingdom of hell. Demeter
not seeing his daughter back to despair and began to look everywhere.
This search lasted for years. One day the goddess came to Eleusis, a small town near Athens and decided to rest for a while ': disguised as an old woman came to the king Cele. The queen, Metanira, needed a nurse to the son Demofoonte: so Demeter agreed to perform the duties of nurse, also believes that caring for a child, would have lessened the pain of the loss of her only daughter. It was at Eleusis was news that the goddess Persephone, a shepherd boy had witnessed the girl's scomparizione; disse che un uomo alto che guidava un carro d'oro tirato da cavalli neri, l'aveva afferrata ed era scomparso con lei in una voragine che si era aperta sul lato di una montagna.
Cerere, felice di sapere che la figlia era ancora viva, si adirò per l'inganno subito, inganno perpetrato da Plutone e, probabilmente con il consenso di Giove.
Allora lasciò Eleusi e riprese il suo vagabondare per il mondo rifiutandosi di rendere fruttuosa la terra.
L'umanità, per tutto il girovagare di Cerere, patì la mancanza di cibo e anche gli dei non ricevevano più i sacrifici e i doni usuali.
Così intervenne Giove: inviò Mercurio da Plutone per chiedere che Proserpina fosse liberata.
Il re degli inferi accettò only if the girl had never touched food throughout the period of his stay.
Proserpina said that, knowing that the food was afforded it every day of the dead, the bitter taste of ashes, had always rejected: as Mercury took it away from there and led her back to her mother. As soon as
Ceres could hug her daughter, the world was reborn: the winter was gone and leaves the place in the spring.
Meanwhile Pluto came to know that in fact the demon Ascalafo Proserpine, in hiding, had eaten some pomegranate seeds: furious demands the immediate return of Proserpine. Having
Ceres threatened that if her daughter had been taken away again, he would made the earth barren, Jupiter came to a compromise: Persephone would have been for nine months with the mother and the other three at the side of her husband.
Ceres did not give up completely: when her daughter came down to the underworld, the trees are stripped and all the earth became barren and cold on his return to earth was again everything's coming up and a riot of colors.
Thus, in ancient times, the men explained the changing seasons.
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The Rape of Proserpine of Gianlorenzo Bernini - Borghese Gallery - Rome
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