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Persephone

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My version of the Persephone myth. Persephone has just been betrayed by Gaia and has fallen to the Underworld. The hand is that of Hades, the red flowers those she picked to trigger her abduction.

I hoped to give a 'feel' for the Eleusynian mysteries, which saw Persephone as an intermediary and intercessor between the organic, mortal world and an otherwise unapproachable and unworshipped Hades.

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Wow! The myth of Persephone is one of my favorites of Greek mythology, very deep, dark and tricky.
I've seen a lot of art surrounding her time below the Earth and as a carefree young girl with her mother, but very few pieces surrounding her actual capture. In some versions of the myth, they say that the very earth opened up with Hades upon a chariot of fire but your interpretation is very interesting also