![]() ![]() "For the modern world, the first and third stories have resonance," Martin says. "It seems that whoever participated in the elaborate ceremony was promised a happy existence in the Underworld after death - the model for this was Persephone, who basically overcomes death (at least partially) by being enabled to keep coming back." ![]() "Because Eleusis was where Demeter settled down to mourn her lost daughter, the shrine there controlled Mysteries - which are still secret to this day - in which hundreds of Greeks and foreigners each year would be initiated into some sort of secret knowledge and sworn to keep it secret," Martin says. ![]() Part of the deal is that the family spreads throughout the world the new knowledge of grain-growing." "In the Hymn, there is a major subplot about how Demeter in mourning shows up at Eleusis, now a suburb of Athens, becomes a nanny for a royal family, nearly immortalizes their baby (by sticking him in the fire every night), is discovered, and then commands that local people worship her to calm her wrath.
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