Grief reshaped the world. When Persephone vanished into the underworld, her mother, Demeter, walked the earth in sorrow, and the fields turned to dust beneath her feet.

In this episode of The Forgotten Familiar, we follow the mother of the grain through myth and memory, from divine despair to the birth of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Her hunger becomes the world’s first lesson in balance, the alchemy of loss turned into life.

Listen as ancient myth, history, and reverence intertwine to reveal how one goddess’s grief taught humankind to plant, to harvest, and to remember.

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Music by Dream-Protocol from Pixabay

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