hades and persephone – persephone's corner

star-beam:

Hades and Persephone

Request from anon based on Springtime by Pierre Auguste Cot

Drawn with microns. Colored in Autodesk Sketch mobile app.

latinacap:

@modernmythsnet | Event Fourteen | AU |
↳ hades/persephone in a tattoo artist/florist AU

love is the flower you have to let grow — j. lennon

sigeel:

here have some more nonsense.

this is after she gets back from the underworld. ;P

thirdchildart:

“Wary, Hades knew he should regret this day of hasty decisions. But she was warm. And sweet. And light. He stood, bowing low, bidding his new queen good night. To his surprise, Persephone cupped his face in her rough hands and kissed the Lord of Darkness lightly on the left temple. Under her lips, white stars blossomed in his hair for only a moment. They wilted and fell. And he fell.”

— The Illustrated Hades and Persephone, Megan C. Lloyd

molinerova:

harry potter au: Tom Riddle x Hermione Granger as Hades and Persephone

He says, “Oh, baby girl, you know we’re gonna be legends

I’m a king and you’re a queen and we will stumble through heaven

Do you feel like a young god?

You know the two of us are just young gods

otherkingdom:

i’ll take you to my underworld… one day.

harlots appreciation week

∟day seven: free choice // hades & persephone

klausgoldsteins:

oftaggrivated:

sonneillonv:

kata-chthonia:

I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?

And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?

Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?

Abducted, yes.
Demeter mourned? Definitely.
Rape, no.

So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.

Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)

Here’s a link to another book that talks about Persephone’s rise to power as a result of her willingly eating the pomegranate seeds.

Oh shit!!

Here’s a whole bunch of myths and hymns that talk about her Queen of the Underworld badassery!!

Holy pug tacos Batman!!

Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!

All these fucking books! What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?

A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.

JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU

I don’t often reblog posts of people getting owned, but when I do…

@persephonesdarkness this is relevant to your interests

fdevitart:

A short story I wrote this summer.

pyrolatrya:

princessprouvaire:

spring is apparently gonna take ages to come this year. but I’m glad that Persephone is getting laid for a bit longer.

#‘no mom I’m not coming home yet. idk maybe april or something. me and hades just started Breaking Bad.’

the-girl-who-swaiting:

merryreynamas:

annabellioncourt:

So if the cold weather gets here because Persephone is going back to her husband does that mean that these random really warm days are ones where Hades fucks up and Persephone spends the night at her mother’s until he gets his act together?

Greek mythology

I fucking love this