ŻŻĖ ā āļ½”Ė Lady Persephoneā¦
Yesterday was Lady Persephoneās worship day. Because I hadnāt gotten much sleep the previous night, I completely forgot to make a post for her. I hope this helps teach you how to worship Her and Her mythology.
ā¾ Who is Persephone?
Persephone is the daughter of the Olympian Gods, Zeus, and Demeter, she is the Goddess of spring, agriculture, reincarnation, and Queen of the Underworld; She is widely associated with growth, fertility, and love as well as everlasting pureness/youth.
Her most famous myth is Her abduction by Hades, Her husband/uncle.
ā¾ Mythology.
After Persephone was born, Her home was the Overworld alongside her mother Demeter. While she was picking flowers alongside the spring nymphs, the earth opened and She was abducted by Hades on His chariot. After Her abduction, Demeter struggled to keep up her divine duties and the earth started to die without Persephone, due to this, Hermes was sent to the Underworld to collect Persephone but before She left the Underworld; Hades tricked Persephone into eating pomegranate seeds. Due to this, Persephone now spends half the year in the Overworld and the other half in the Underworld which explains the seasons.
Depending on the myth, Persephone is the mother of Dionysus after Zeus assaulted Her, however, the myth was changed later on as the ancient Greeks believed that having their chief God assaulting His daughter was too evil of Him. Nowadays, Dionysus was changed to Zagerus and He is known to be Hadesā son instead. MelionĆ« was also a result of Zeus assaulting His daughter as He tricked Her by disguising Himself as Hades, although, modern interpretations of the myth have Hades be Her father, like Zagerus.
Persephone also was associated with the Orpheus and Eurydice myth; when Orpheus descended into the Underworld to retrieve Eurydice, he managed to make a song so beautiful and heartbreaking that Hades became sympathetic toward him and offered Orpheus that he could take Eurydice back but the catch was he wasnāt allowed to turn back to see if Eurydice was behind him or even touch her to lead him out of the Underworld. Hades did this to test Orpheusā love for his wife and how much he cared for her.Ā
ā¾ Symbols and Offerings.
Symbols:Ā
-Pomegranate.
-Torches.
-Seeds.
-Flowers.
-Skulls.
-Bones.
Offerings:
-Any type of flowers (can be fake).
-Pomegranate (fake, scents or food).
-Found bones (Remember to thank the animal and leave an offering for them as a way of respect).Ā
-Tarot decks you associate with her.
-Nuts and seeds.
-Fruit.
-Anything with grains.
-Anything minty.
-Jewellery.
-Poetry or any kind of art related to Her.
-Floral/fruity scented candles.
-Dried herbs or flowers.
-Crystals: angel aura quartz, rose quartz, and opalite.
-Drinks like tea, hot chocolate, water, milk or honey.
-Bat, ram, deer or dog imagery.
Persephone shares an altar with Lord Hades so if you wish to see altar inspiration, here is the post I made for Hades: https://www.tumblr.com/al0v3w1tch/766671508589477888/%E0%BD%90-%E0%BD%8B-lord-hades-today-is-lord?source=share
ā¾ Prayers.
-Fair-haired Persephone, daughter of Demeter, friend of the nymphs, merry-hearted girls who dance bearefooted and play, carefree, in grassy fields, wreathed in bright spring flowers.
The joy of life is yours, goddess, the comfort of sun on skin, the dear bonds of friendship, the refuge of a motherās love.
Well-crowned Persephone, bride of noble Hades, queen of the afterworld, clothed in fine silks, adorned with jewels, enthroned in glory, friend to those who have passed from this world into yours, advocate of the dead and the wronged.
Kindly Persephone, womanly one, of transformation do you know much, of the ways of the earth do you know much; of the life after life do you know much.
Gracious goddess, friend of mortals, I praise you and thank you for your gifts.
-Persephone, glorious goddess, fair one with hair that flows like ripened grain, eyes that catch the clear blue sky, a smile sweet yet shadowed, O light-footed one who dances in flowered fields, I praise you.Persephone, lovely one who knows the feel of sun on skin, who knows as well the press of cold stone against warm flesh, in the world of the living, no maid is so alive as you.
In the world of the dead, Persephone, you reign as queen, crowned with riches unsurpassed, enthroned in splendor, honored above all others.
Goddess, child of earth, bride of the darkness, I honor you.
-Persephone, glorious goddess, fair one
with hair that flows like ripened grain, eyes that catch
the clear blue sky, a smile sweet yet shadowed,
O light-footed one who dances in flowered fields,
I praise you. Persephone, lovely one who knows
the feel of sun on skin, who knows as well the press
of cold stone against warm flesh, in the world
of the living, no maid is so alive as you.
In the world of the dead, Persephone, you reign
as queen, crowned with riches unsurpassed, enthroned
in splendor, honored above all others. Goddess,
child of the earth, bride of the darkness, I honor you.
ā¾ Blessed be.
