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From the Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (which is a fucking incredible book, by the way). I was just about to type this whole entry in, until I found it here, and decided to hijack it:

“‘Destroyer,’ the Crone form of the Triple Goddess Demeter, whose other aspects were Kore the Virgin and Demeter-Pluto the Mother or Preserver. The three deities succeeded each other cyclically like the three points of a turning triangle-Demeter’s symbol delta-so that Kore and Persephone were often confused and came to be considered the same Goddess. The fable about Kore-Persephone’s abduction by Pluto was a later invention. She was Queen of the Underworld long before there was a masculinized Pluto. Orphic mystics worshipped her as Goddess of the blessed dead, to whom they addressed formula prayers: ‘And now I come suppliant to the Holy Persephone, that of her grace she receive me to the seats of the Hallowed’ Persephone answered, ‘Happy and blessed one, thou shalt be god instead of mortal.’ She held the keys to heaven and hell (Elysium and Tartarus,) thus anticipating the Mithraic pater patrum and his Christian counterpart Peter.

Persephone is considerably older than the Eleusinian myth of classical writings, which told of her descent into the underworld and her annual return to the earth each spring. She is really another name for Hecate or Hel, and had ruled the underworld as destroying Mother Kali ruled it under the name of Prisni, which may have been the origin of Persephone’s Etruscan name, Persipnei. Romans called her Proserpine. It was under this name that she passed into Christian tradition as a Queen of She-Demons. Like Kali the Destroyer, she was the basic Death-goddess from the beginning.”

• Persephone & the Twins
• Since your comment system doesnt want to work…
• Eleusis & Dionysus
• Asherah & the Goddess
• A urinating baby Dionysus