Persephone Demeter, and Hekate: The Story of the Seasons.

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Ever hear the story of where lightning and thunder come from?

You may have been blessed enough to hear the Cherokee version of the Ani Yuntikwalaski, Thunder Beings. Or that is was “GOD” bowling up in heaven, or taking pictures of us down here to create that magnificent flash of light; Or that, Gods crying when it rains.

Simple mythologies, told by those of wisdom, to the younger more naïve, to help you to understand a lesson in life through subtle association, a skill long since forgotten. Now we have Science class were we learn facts about this that and the other, But we lose the connection and the emotion.

That’s why I am trying to bring those “Old tales” back to life.

I chose to write my initial article on something from Greek Mythology and to introduce you to one of my personal favorite myths, the myth of Persephone, Demeter, and Hekate. This story caught my attention as one of the more entertaining explanations of the changing of the seasons.

In the Olympian pantheon, Persephone is given a father: according to Hesiod's Theogony, (which I am currently reading) Persephone was the daughter produced by the union of Zeus and Demeter. "And he (Zeus) came to the bed of bountiful Demeter, who bore white-armed Persephone, stolen by Hades (not Lucifer) from her mother's side".
Read the full story at WitchVox.