Persephone. Queen of the Underworld. Followed by an essay on death.
Harmattan| N° d'inventaire | 19305 |
| Format | 13.5 x 21.5 |
| Détails | 164 p., paperback |
| Publication | Condé-sur-Noireau, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
There aren't many legends about her, but isn't that because Demeter and Persephone are the same person? Mother and daughter represent a teaching that gave rise to the Eleusinian Mysteries and which symbolize the necessary death of matter to access heaven. Persephone manifests the possibility for man to dominate the death of matter to access divine intelligence, the kingdom of the Olympians. Mother of Zagreus and the heart of Dionysus, she gives a particular meaning to death that must nevertheless be overcome if we want to understand the existence of the eternal return. The author, in wanting to deepen the idea of death, could not ignore the myths of Demeter and Persephone. Having reached a point in his life where he would like to make the same journey as Ulysses, he understands that words are not enough, as Orpheus shows by losing Eurydice a second time, and seeks, in a particular approach to death, the means to question the queen of the Underworld.
There aren't many legends about her, but isn't that because Demeter and Persephone are the same person? Mother and daughter represent a teaching that gave rise to the Eleusinian Mysteries and which symbolize the necessary death of matter to access heaven. Persephone manifests the possibility for man to dominate the death of matter to access divine intelligence, the kingdom of the Olympians. Mother of Zagreus and the heart of Dionysus, she gives a particular meaning to death that must nevertheless be overcome if we want to understand the existence of the eternal return. The author, in wanting to deepen the idea of death, could not ignore the myths of Demeter and Persephone. Having reached a point in his life where he would like to make the same journey as Ulysses, he understands that words are not enough, as Orpheus shows by losing Eurydice a second time, and seeks, in a particular approach to death, the means to question the queen of the Underworld.