ABSORPTUS TENEBRIS

// ABSORPTUS TENEBRIS = ABSORBED IN DARKNESS //

"But come, Persuasion, and with soft thoughts soothe my dear heart for me, so that she stop her anger and her stern wrath. For I would be loath to see the azure-eyed goddess, venerable Persephoneia, while I am still among the living. For all other gods and all the mortal men would blame me, if, in dread reverence for gray-eyed Persephoneia, I should not receive my dear daughter back from Aides' murky realm."

• "The Homeric Hymn to Demeter," lines 243-249

(In this excerpt, Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, is lamenting the loss of her daughter Persephone, who has been taken to the Underworld by Hades. Demeter pleads to the goddess Persuasion (Peitho) to help her reconcile with Persephone and bring her back from the realm of the dead. The mention of Persephoneia (another name for Persephone) and Aides (Hades) relates directly to the Underworld and the goddesses associated with it)

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