chapter 10

demeter

goddess of the grain harvest, daughter of cronus and rhea

persephone

daughter of demeter, goddess of seasonal harvest, wife of hades

kore

virgin daughter/girl, name for persephone

parthenos

unmarried virgin girl

eleusinian mysteries

religious cult of demeter

triptolemus

prince of Eleusis, taught by Demeter, spread knowledge of grain growing

inanna

sumerian fertility goddess of love and war

dumuzi

shephard god, lover of inanna

isis

egyptian goddess, wife of osris

osiris

egyptian god of resurrection, husband and brother of isis

cybele

phrygian goddess of fertility, disease, protection, mountains

attis

phrygian resurrection god, youthful lover of cybele, driven mad and castrates himself and dies

agdestis

violent child of zeus and a rock, castrated by dionysus, in love with attis

hieros gamos

sacred marriage