Long Journey Home Re-Visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time

Name: Long Journey Home Re-Visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time
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ISBN: 9781570626852

ISBN-10: 1570626855

ISBN-13: 9781570626852

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Authors: Christine Downing

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The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination of people in every age, from ancient times to the present. Considered today by many to be the archetypal myth for women, it touches on timeless themes in every life, such as the male-female relationship, love between women, initiations into puberty and old age, the mother-daughter bond, death, and ecological renewal. Christine Downing has combined essays, prose, poetry, and even performance art with her own insightful commentary to shed new light on the myth's ancient meanings and to offer new insights in its implications for contemporary men and women.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Ancient Sources


The Greek Literary Tradition


The Homeric "Hymn to Demeter"



The Rape of Proserpine



Art and Ritual



Precursors of Contemporary Perspectives


Mythography and Depth Psychology


The Woman's Experience of Herself and the Eleusinian Mysteries



Women's Re-visionings


Demeter



Persephone




Contemporary Women's Retellings


A Richly Filled Cornucopia


In Search of a Prepatriachal Version


The Myth of Demeter and Persephone



The Mother-Daughter Bond


Three Poems



The Crux



Learning from My Mother Dying



Love among Women


The Return to the Mother



Rape and Patriarchal Violation


Demeter, Persephone, and the Pedagogy of Archetypal Empowerment



The Two Goddesses



Puberty Rites


The Rape of Persephone



Cycles of Becoming



Midlife Passage


Mother and Daughter Mysteries



The Rape of Demeter/Persephone and Neurosis



Demeter's Folly: Experiencing Loss in Middle Life



Persephone in Hades



Hekate, Rhea, and Baubo: Perspectives on Menopause



Glimpses of a Postpatriarchal World


Sightings of Maternal Rage and Paternal Love in the Homeric "Hymn to Demeter"



Hades Speaks



Concern for the Earth


An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Demeter-Persephone Myth



A New Telling of the Myth


Long Journey Home



About the Contributors


Further Reading


Credits