#narcissuses

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[parafrazerofhistory]

The Rape of Persephone

“The youthful Persephone, so runs the tale, was gathering roses and lilies, crocuses and violets, hyacinths and narcissuses in a lush meadow, when the earth gaped and Pluto, lord of the Dead, issuing from the abyss carried her off on his golden car to be his bride and queen in the gloomy subterranean world.

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"Her sorrowing mother Demeter, with her yellow tresses veiled in a dark mourning mantle, sought her over land and sea, and learning from the Sun her daughter's fate she withdrew in high dudgeon from the gods and took up her abode at Eleusis, where she presented herself to the king's daughters in the guise of an old woman, sitting sadly under the shadow of an olive tree beside the Maiden's Well, to which the damsels had come to draw water in bronze pitchers for their father's house. In her wrath at her bereavement the goddess suffered not the seed to grow in the earth but kept it hidden under ground, and she vowed that never would she set foot on Olympus and never would she let the corn sprout till her lost daughter should be restored to her. Vainly the oxen dragged the ploughs to and fro in the fields; vainly the sower dropped the barley seed in the brown furrows; nothing came up from the parched and crumbling soil. Even the Rarian plain near Eleusis, which was wont to wave with yellow harvests, lay bare and fallow.

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"Mankind would have perished of hunger and the gods would have been robbed of the sacrifices which were their due, if Zeus in alarm had not commanded Pluto to disgorge his prey, to restore his bride Persephone to her mother Demeter. The grim lord of the Dead smiled and obeyed, but before he sent back his queen to the upper air on a golden car, he gave her the seed of a pomegranate to eat, which ensured that she would return to him.

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"But Zeus stipulated that henceforth Persephone should spend two thirds of every year with her mother and the gods in the upper world and one third of the year with her husband in the nether world, from which she was to return year by year when the earth was gay with spring flowers. Gladly the daughter then returned to the sunshine, gladly her mother received her and fell upon her neck; and in her joy at recovering the lost one Demeter made the corn to sprout from the clods of the ploughed fields and all the broad earth to be heavy with leaves and blossoms.

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"And straightway she went and shewed this happy sight to the princes of Eleusis, to Triptolemus, Eumolpus, Diodes, and to the king Celeus himself, and moreover she revealed to them her sacred rites and mysteries.... So the two goddesses departed to dwell in bliss with the gods on Olympus...”

—J. G. Frazer, Spirits of the Corn & of the Wild, part 1 (The Golden Bough, vol. VII, 1912, p. 36-37)

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Semyon Faybisovich,

Narcissuses, 1985

[a-stringless-puppet]

❄ (For whomever the shoe so fits)

153. “That doesn’t mean you have to kill them!”

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[neon-flamingo]

December Floral Embroidery Design. Poinsettia, narcissus, and holly for December. 

[thepromiseofheroes]

|Continued @narcissuses

She smiled at her, nodding a bit at her question and moving to let her hand cover the others. She didn’t like seeing the other being so down on herself, always hating that people were left to wish that their skin were different, or that they were skinnier or bigger. The worlds view of beauty too narrow minded for the blonde’s liking. 

“You are absolutely stunning.” she reassured, giving her a soft look as she squeezed her hand. “And don’t you dare let anyone tell you otherwise.” she added, her tone going a bit serious before she was chuckling a bit. “Anyone who doesn’t see your beauty are ignorant assholes that don’t deserve your time.”

[showorst]

#naturelovers #慈さんです、センセが中性脂肪を下げる為に、大好きなパンを断って、一歩お外へ出てしまえば苦にはならない速歩きを始めて6日目の記念記録をお送りしております。 パンが大好きと云っても、専らマッサモーレとかバゲットとかをフライパンでオリーブオイルを垂らして焼いてカリッとさせたものが好きで、惣菜パンとか菓子パンには見向きもしないのに、中性脂肪450を叩き出したのは、この6年というもの1日に100mすら歩かない事も珍しくない程度のヒキコモリだった処へ三が日の暴飲暴食がとどめを刺したからに違いないと思うのでした、まる。#huaweip10lite #huaweiヘルスケア #Farfetch #narcissuses #walk

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Keukenhof, Holland por Natali Antonovich Via Flickr: Keukenhof, Holland