![]() ![]() ![]() Without consulting Demeter, Zeus permitted Hades, god of the underworld, to abduct Kore and marry her. But Demeter was angry for Kore – and as part of that anger negotiated a better future for her daughter.Īccording to the HHD, Kore was the daughter of Demeter and the main Greek god Zeus. There are many ancient Greek stories about fathers and sons, usually involving intergenerational rage and violence. The story, told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter( HHD see Foley 1994) is striking, because it’s about a mother, the goddess Demeter, who got angry on behalf of her daughter, Kore, aka Persephone. ![]() Three things struck me when I started looking at them: the story the cults themselves and the significance of plants mentioned in relevant texts. The cults of Demeter and Kore were part of the ancient Greek world. I gulped it down as soon as it was published in the UK, and rejoiced in it, because the power of women’s anger is increasingly the force for change that it should be, worldwide and because a long time ago, when my two daughters were six and two years old, I wrote an article on the cults of Demeter and Kore, in which the Anger of Demeter was crucially powerful (Nixon 1995). ![]() Soraya Chemaly’s important book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger was published earlier this year. ![]()
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