CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nanny, Pomegranate, Iasion
23 Mar 2018
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Has the power to give food and take it away. Can be associated with society and family life, because of what she gives. *strong associations with earth fertility, going back to gaia. Thanking the goddess of food for what you"ve gotten. *greek farming cycles have a different schedule than ours. At the height of the ritual, the priest shows the head of a stalk of wheat. *once you are initiated, you learn some secret. *once you are a part of the cult, you don"t fear death anymore. A hymn is a song written to honour a god or goddess. These greek hymns were thought to be written by homer, but they are later works in a homeric style. The hymn to demeter preserves a partial aetiology of the eleusinian mysteries. In demeter cult we don"t use persephone"s name - we use the relationship to her mother. A common greco-roman image for a girl on the girl of marriage.
