V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invienes Occultum Lapidium
Visit the Interior Parts of the Earth, By Rectification, Thou Shalt Find the Hidden Stone.
Persephone's Place
Persephone's Pages
Welcome to Persephone's Pages These pages are dedicated to the lore, artwork, history, poetry and other inspirations pertaining specifically to this mythical Goddess. Read, browse, ponder and enjoy!
The painting which you see presented on each page of this website is a Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti titled: "Proserpina" ( her Roman name )
Here she is depicted with her symbol the Pomegranate and a stream of ivy, one of her sacred plants climbing down the backdrop behind her. The green dress that she wears is a symbol of her fertile spring maiden aspect and links her to the vegatative life of the agricultural cycles of the earth and the potential for renewal and regeneration.
Please note this page is still under construction. Topics which are not hyperlinked have not yet been uploaded or linked. Please keep checking back.
Persephone's Pages Achives
Demeter Archives
Sanctuary of Demeter: Priene
Inanna: (Mesopotamian Demeter counterpart)
White Buffalo Woman: Native American Goddess of Corn and the Peace Pipe (Sioux)
Eleusinian Mysteries Links
Ninnion Tablet
Cross Cultural Underworld Goddesses
Lilith: Mesopotamian
Ereshkigel: Mesopotamian
Cerridwen: Celtic
Morgan Le Fey : Celtic
The Morrigan: Celtic
The Furies: Greco / Roman
Sacred Sites & Statuary
Poetry
Recommended Reading
Dinner With Persephone: Patricia Storace/ Vintage Books: Good book about a womans travels through Greece and her insights
The Ravaged Bridegroom: Marion Woodman: This is a Jungian psychological book which deals with the Persephone archetype in women's lives and how it manifests primarily in the unresolved relationships women have to their fathers
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ph.D: Another good psychological and mythical book that deals with the darker archetypes of the feminine psyche and the descent to the underworld realms of being
The Narcissus and the Pommegranate: Ann Suter: A research into the Myth of Persephone and its origins
Movies
Stigmata
Legend
Brahm Stokers Dracula
Queen of the Damned
Dogma