After marble group by Gian Lorenzo Bernini at Galleria Borghese in Rome. Macris' brother Actaeon became known for having been devoured by his own dogs.ģ331: Hades abducts Persephone, 1621-22. Her father Aristaeus, a favorite of the MUSES, discovered honey and the fatness of olive her mother is one of the daughters of Cadmus. ![]() It was in the sacred cave of Macris Isle that Jason married Medea. Macris then changed her residence, and went to dwell in which became a sacred cave in Phaeacis, and the whole island of Phaeacis or Corcyra was called Macris Isle, to be distinguished from Abantian Macris which was her first residence in Euboea. But when Hera learned that Hermes had brought Dionysus 2 to Macris, she drove her from that island. Macris, daughter of Aristaeus and Autonoe 2, is one of the nurses of Dionysus 2, whom she fed on honey while she still lived in the island of Euboea. In this island, also called Scheria and Corcyra, the Phaeacians live. That is why the island is called Drepane (Sickle-island). Iasion is now among the stars for some say that the constellation of the Twins (Gemini) shows Iasion and Triptolemus, the young man who received from Demeter wheat and a chariot of winged Dragons with which, flying through the sky, he sowed the whole inhabited earth.ĭemeter was fond of the Nymph Macris, who lived in the island under which lies the sickle that Cronos used when he mutilated his father (see Castration of Uranus)., though some say this is the reaping-hook of Demeter, who once lived in this island and taught the TITANS how to reap the ears of corn. It has also been told that Iasion married the goddess Cybele, and that after their son Corybas, the CORYBANTES, who celebrate the rites of his mother, were named. But Philomelus, having received nothing from Plutus, and being left with his own talent alone, became the inventor of the wagon, supporting himself by cultivating the fields. Apparently it was at the wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia 1, Iasion's sister, that Demeter fell in love with Iasion, having children by him, Plutus (Wealth) and Philomelus, who never agreed with each other. ![]() Among these was Cadmus, who married Harmonia 1 in Samothrace, where he was initiated by Iasion. It was Zeus, they say, who instructed his son Iasion in the initiatory rite of the mysteries in Samothrace, the island in the northern Aegean Sea, and they add that Iasion was the first to initiate strangers into them. Some have called Iasion son of Thuscus or son of Ilithius, but others have said that he was the son of Zeus and Electra 3, one of the PLEIADES. Yet others have said that Iasion was destroyed by his own horses, and still others do not think he died at that time for otherwise they had not said that Demeter could regret his graying hairs (see also Plutus). For this love, some believe, Iasion perished, being killed by Zeus with a thunderbolt. It is said that Demeter fell in love with handsome Iasion, and that they lay in a thrice-plowed field. ![]() This is the bone made of ivory that years later the ACHAEANS had to bring to Troy if the city was ever to be taken (see Conditions to take Troy at Trojan War). But since the shoulder was not complete, Demeter fitted an ivory one in its place. The gods soon discovered the outrage, giving him life again and joining his limbs together. ![]() It was then that Demeter tasted Pelops 1. For perverse Tantalus 1 had slaughtered his own son, cut up, boiled and offered him as a meal when he feasted the gods. Later, when Demeter, being grown up, came to the banquet that Tantalus 1 offered to the gods, she, unwittingly, ate the arm of Pelops 1. This is how the river Hercyna in Boeotia, came to be. It is told that when Demeter, being a child, was playing with Hercyna and this girl let loose a goose, the goddess, when removing the stone under which the goose was hidden, caused water to flow. For she, after inventing the grain in the island of Sicily, was the first to gather, prepare, preserve it, and the first to instruct mankind how to sow it. Museo Nacional del Prado.ĭemeter, whose nurse was Eirene 1 (Peace), is the goddess of fertility, and the mother of the corn. 9734: Deméter del tipo «Madrid-Capitolio».
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