Persephone Enamelled pendant

Description

Persephone (may mean sheaf-beater)was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Hades. She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

She was titled Kore (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty.

when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, she was seized by Hades and carried off to the underworld as his bride. Her mother Demeter despaired at her disappearance and searched for her the throughout the world (accompanied by the goddess Hecate bearing torches). When she learned that Zeus had known of her daughter's abduction she was furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was returned. Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Hades--a handful of pomegranate seeds--she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. Her annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of the meadows and the sudden growth of the new grain. Her return to the underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of growth.

Each piece is enamelled on both sides, hand painted in layers of enamel paint and fired between each layer. The technique is called 'limoges'. Each piece is fired at least 7 times.

Peice is 1.5" wide and hangs from a satin cord.
Please specify the cord length

Added on Aug 26, 2009

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