The Descent of Persephone
Here is a story I like to tell this time of year. Demeter, by whose hand the grain ripens and turns to gold beneath the sun, had a beautiful daughter,
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Orpheus and Eurydike
Orpheus was a bard, a singer of great renown, son of the Muse Calliope and also the King of the Cicones, a tribe that lived in the Rhodope Mountains in
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Rite of Awakening
The ancients celebrated the end of the barren season, when Persephone returned and Demeter deigned to bless the land with fertility again, and so do we. The barren season to
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