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Recieved: 2001/03/29 12:35
Subject: [K-list] Persephone, proserpina, an Easter theme
From: Wim Borsboom

Dear dear So & So,

You wrote:
> btw the name site you mentioned
> http://www.behindthename.com/
> didn't do Persephone justice ... really :)

I can say the following all from vision... ( I 'slept' on this last night as
I promised you, but let me base my vision also on linguistic footings, as
though coming from entomological roots, to re-construct a more comprehensive
understanding of mythical reality.

Let's see... (When you search 'name', 'meaning' and 'description', the above
site provides more information.
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PROSERPINA (f) "to emerge" (Latin). She was the Roman equivalent of the
Greek goddess Persephone.

PERSEPHONE (f) Meaning unknown (Greek), perhaps "to destroy light". In Greek
myth she was the *daughter of Demeter and Zeus* who was abducted to the
underworld by Hades. She was eventually allowed to return to the surface for
part of the year. The result of her comings and goings is the changing of
the seasons.

DEMETER (f) "earth mother" from Greek de "earth" and meter "mother". In
Greek mythology Demeter was the goddess of agriculture, the daughter of
Cronus, the sister of Zeus, and the mother of Persephone.

JUPITER (m) "divine father" (Latin). Jupiter was the supreme god in Roman
mythology. He presided over the heavens and light. His Greek equivalent was
Zeus.
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Let's work with this.....

The Latin equivalent to Persephone, 'Proserpina' is likely from 'pro' and
'serp'.
It may mean 'crawling forward', or better still, ('pro' having the meaning
of 'pro' as in 'pro-duce') coming forth, crawling out, as a baby being born
forth from the womb. (The original meaning of profane is 'appear' from
'pro' 'phaenomai' as in 'phenomenon). The serpent emerging from crevice or
cave, a baby as little worm being born. ('Worm' is in many languages a
vernacular for a newborn child.) Persephone is the serpent, is Eve, all in
positive contexts.
*** Persephone is Eve

I do not think that Hades IS the 'underworld'. The underworld is called
after Hades. There is a big mix-up in the crossover of mythical names and
meanings. Trying to unravel that here.
The underworld was originally not seen as a dark, lugubrious and dank
place... It is more like the womb.
I love that realm, that's where I work nightly. It is full of inner light
that one sees once one discovers the saviour / mid man / mid wife / helper
/holy spirit. When you are touched. Or when you reach for and touch the
saviour / helper / holy spirit /eleuterios / lover / obstetrician (?)...
when you are being born, liberated, reborn or when you REITERATE YOURSELF.
If Hades is a place it is Eden called after Adam, the place in which Adam
'reiterates'.
*** Hades is Adam
*** Eden is Adam's (and Eve's) place
*** Eden is also called 'Helle' into which Jesus descends (Nicene Creed)

Demeter, Proserpina's mother, means 'mother earth'. 'de' is earth as in
Eden. So Proserpina is the daughter of the earth mother, periodically
(menstruation) called back (forced really) into the womb (the cave, or in
aboriginal terms 'back to the menstruation hut' ) to emerge fertile again.
Annually as in Easter (sun and moon) or monthly (moon).
*** Demeter is Mother Earth

Zeus or Jupiter is io-pater. We could say 'father universe'. Jesus prayed,
according to the Greek Lord's prayer, "Ho pater ho en tois uranois", "our
father who art in heaven(s)." Je-hova. Zeus and Demeter produce the children
of humankind.
*** Zeus is Yahweh

Persephone = Eve
Demeter = de-meter = mother earth
Earth = Eden
Zeus = io-pater = je-hova = yahweh = father universe
Hades = Adam

We can do the same with Kunda+Lingam (yoni, kunt + lingam, penis) Kundalini
/ Tantra Yoga (joining up) symbolism. I have written about that before
elsewhere.

*** Whereas Jesus is 'the son of hu-man-kind', Persephone is 'the daughter
of hu-man-kind'.

Love,
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