Tag: Eros
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Of Mothers, Daughters and Pomegranate Seeds…
The Greek myth of Persephone centers on the relationship between Persephone and her mother, Demeter. Demeter loved her daughter, Persephone very much. The story goes that the Greek God, Apollo, fathered Persephone by Demeter, Apollo’s sister. When Persephone goes missing Demeter, quite distraught, searches every hill and valley to find her daughter and only child.…
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Of Arrows, Psyche, and Moments of Empathy, Grace and Redemption…
The outset of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche, shows Eros leaning over the sleeping mortal, Psyche, and fervently prepared to strike Psyche with one of his arrows and create a wound that will command her to fall in love with a beast. Eros’s mother, Aphrodite sent him on this mission out of her…