THE TALE of DEMETER & PERSEPHONE - & The GREAT PROMISE of SPRING Anne Maria Clarke скачать в хорошем качестве

THE TALE of DEMETER & PERSEPHONE - & The GREAT PROMISE of SPRING Anne Maria Clarke

Written and presented by Anne Maria Clarke Audio Production - David Johnson The great beauty of myths & fairy-stories is that they show us ways out of darkness. They elucidate the processes of recovery, of healing. They give us hope. The ground was hard & frozen solid beneath my feet as I walked through the woods early this morning & spring seemed very far away indeed . It felt like the perfect moment to ponder this powerful tale. " More than anything else, the myth of Demeter & Persephone speaks to us of an ever-renewing and unbroken circle. It’s contemplation offers profound insight into the cycle of loss, search & recovery. The lunar myths tell that the goddess gave birth to the universe out of herself, that she was the source of life....the crops flourished & withered in their season, as did mortals, born out of her body, rising like the corn & being cut down at death. This is the face of Demeter, as mother of the world, of life. Yet at the moment of death she was there too, waiting to embrace her children, as she was there to embrace the sun at the end of each day, scooping it up into her deepest depths, into her womb. And from what she collected at deaths dark door – the seed, as it were – she created new life each morning, each season, giving birth anew. This role of guardian of the soul through death is the face of the goddess as Persephone, Queen of the underworld – for you see - in the end Demeter & Persephone are one, each giving form & poetic expression to two complimentary aspects of the goddess of the moon. " This article is based upon extracts taken from my book The Dark Moon available at www.archivepublishing.co.uk References C.P.Estes -Women who run with the Wolves p.338 p.338 p.58 Anne Baring & Jules Cashford –Myth of the Goddess p.370 p. 381 Nor Hall –The Moon & the Virgin p.78 p.88.