I love your Persephone story and also the beautiful paintings. At the age of 12,13 years I loved the Greek myths and stories. I read a version of the Ilias and the Odysse that I could understand .
Last week I was guiding a class of chideren in that age, 12,13 . One of the objects was called: Do not hate Hades for loving Persephone. So I could tel them the story.
The daughter needs to leave, and be free to set forth on her own voyage. But when a daughter leaves her mother, it can feel like a kind of bereavement and a time of mourning for the mother. The summer of her own life is over now, and she is turning by degrees to face the winter. But it's incumbent on the mother to smile as she waves her daughter off on her great adventure. Life demands courage. Bon courage. En-courage-ment.
Thank you for that observation that the mother faces winter when her daughter leaves. In my own life my mother's death and our youngest son leaving home coincided and that period certainly plunged me deep into the winter season of my own life (which I extremified by taking myself off to Greenland)! Bon courage back to you!
That was a very sharp as well as deep conjunction, Imelda. And a bracing tonic. I was lucky to keep my mother until I was almost 60. It is truly and finally childhood's end, although I am her child always, just as my adult children are my children always. Now I/ (we)- step up as Demeter- or Hecate. Now we become the Crone.
The fairy tale originally written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 has always captivated me. Who is beauty and who the beast?
I was thinking of Cupid yesterday. How artists depict him as a chubby baby with wings, instead of a mature man. I think I need to read up on Cupid and Psyche!!
I love your Persephone story and also the beautiful paintings. At the age of 12,13 years I loved the Greek myths and stories. I read a version of the Ilias and the Odysse that I could understand .
Last week I was guiding a class of chideren in that age, 12,13 . One of the objects was called: Do not hate Hades for loving Persephone. So I could tel them the story.
That is wonderful to hear! I think Persephone is more than ready to play her role in our (post) modern world! :)
This has really got me thinking deeply. Thank you
Hope your reflections brought you treasure!
The daughter needs to leave, and be free to set forth on her own voyage. But when a daughter leaves her mother, it can feel like a kind of bereavement and a time of mourning for the mother. The summer of her own life is over now, and she is turning by degrees to face the winter. But it's incumbent on the mother to smile as she waves her daughter off on her great adventure. Life demands courage. Bon courage. En-courage-ment.
Thank you for that observation that the mother faces winter when her daughter leaves. In my own life my mother's death and our youngest son leaving home coincided and that period certainly plunged me deep into the winter season of my own life (which I extremified by taking myself off to Greenland)! Bon courage back to you!
That was a very sharp as well as deep conjunction, Imelda. And a bracing tonic. I was lucky to keep my mother until I was almost 60. It is truly and finally childhood's end, although I am her child always, just as my adult children are my children always. Now I/ (we)- step up as Demeter- or Hecate. Now we become the Crone.
The fairy tale originally written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 has always captivated me. Who is beauty and who the beast?
All of us are both, right? I can easily own that I am both, and more.... X
Definitely!
It’s also the story of Cupid and Psyche
I was thinking of Cupid yesterday. How artists depict him as a chubby baby with wings, instead of a mature man. I think I need to read up on Cupid and Psyche!!