Thread: Sirens were formerly handmaidens of the goddess Persephone, and they were with her when she was abducted by Hades and was taken to the Underworld...
Demeter then gave them bird bodies to help find her. Why? Based on all the animal and plant calendar markers contained in the legend about the Abduction of Persephone, she was abducted at the beginning of winter, Oct/Nov... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/04/abduct…
Ever heard of the belief that migratory birds depart with the sun to the Underworld in autumn and come back with the sun from the Underworld in spring? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/01/leto.h…
Which is why Apollo rides on the chariots pulled by migratory "singing" swans...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/11/singer…
Ever heard of "Soul birds", Ancient Greek depictions of human souls as birds with human heads? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/soul-b…
Or about the belief that souls travel between the land of the living and the land of the dead as birds...
Is this why Demeter turned her daughter's handmaidens into birds with human heads, when she sent them to look for her daughter, who was taken by Hades to the underworld? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/sirens…
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