Persephone
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Nov 2, 2026
Samantha FeyHOST
You use a lot of science and history, but you use a lot of myth stories in your book as well.
Samantha FeyHOST
You talk about Persephone and her descent and how that is connected to the Tarot.
Samantha FeyHOST
Can you tell us about that?
Jenna MatlinGUEST
Actually, Persephone is not a main character.
Jenna MatlinGUEST
She's more tangentially spoken about in the Tarot Book of the Dead.
Jenna MatlinGUEST
And I made that decision because, as a feminist, I didn't really want to platform the story of someone being abducted and assaulted.
Jenna MatlinGUEST
And that didn't feel right for the story.
Jenna MatlinGUEST
But Hecate is in this story.
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In the beginning, according to the poet Hesiod, whose Theogony, the birth of the gods, was composed around 700 BCE, the first of all beings were Chaos, the yawning void, and Gaia, the earth, and Gaia gave birth to Ouranos, the starry sky, who covered her on every side.
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From the union of earth and sky came the first great race of gods, the Titans, six sons and six daughters, mighty and ancient beings, among them Okeanos, the great river that encircled the world, and Themis, the goddess of law and order, and Nemosine, the goddess of memory.
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The youngest of the Titans was Cronos, whom Hesiod calls crooked-minded, the most terrible of the children of earth.
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Eranos hated his children and kept them hidden away inside the body of their mother, deep in the earth, and would not let them come into the light.
Sabrina LynnHOST
This is aha moments.
Sabrina LynnHOST
Now Pele is at nine degrees and then opposite them is Persephone and Medusa at 11 and 12 degrees.
Sabrina LynnHOST
This is a big deal.
Sabrina LynnHOST
This is a lot of dark goddess energy.
Sabrina LynnHOST
Pele, volcanic energy, but it is a dark goddess, a destruction for a rebirth.
Sabrina LynnHOST
We've got Persephone.
Sabrina LynnHOST
I get dragged into the underworld, Scorpio.
Sabrina LynnHOST
I get dragged into the underworld to become queen.
speaker_0HOST
It was orgiastic, nocturnal, and secretive, the sort of thing Athenian writers gossiped about the way people gossip about cults.
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Over the following centuries, as Greek and Roman writers do their endless work of matching foreign gods to familiar ones, Bendis gets folded in with Artemis, with Hecate, with Selene and the Moon, and with Persephone, with the Great Mother.
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You'll see all of this confidently asserted online as facts about the goddess Bendis, but they're not exactly.
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They're the residue of a long process of translation in which a specific Thracian goddess got progressively dissolved into a general category of dangerous foreign knight goddesses.
Crow MoonHOST
For these reasons, she is often called upon by many as they embark upon self-discovery through shadow work.
Crow MoonHOST
Another reason for this is that, although she is heavily associated with what many would term the dark side of things, she is still considered by many to be one of empathy and According to legend, she used her ability to travel between realms in order to assist Demeter in her search for her daughter, Persephone.
Crow MoonHOST
Our perception of darkness, more specifically, what might be lurking in the shadows, is often beset with some level of apprehension, if not a measurable degree of fear, because uncertainty tends to evoke such in many of us.
Crow MoonHOST
Consequently, we will shy away from performing any sort of shadow work due to what the term alone seems to imply.
JoHOST
Who would be
KateHOST
Persephone?
JoHOST
Who'd be Demita? Demita would be Phoebe.
JoHOST
Oh, for real.
JonathanHOST
Yeah.
JonathanHOST
But to decorate your Samhain altar, use black candles, pumpkins, skulls, bones, fallen leaves, other symbols of the harvest or dead, and objects representing the underworld or harvest and winter deities that you wish to honor at this time, such as Persephone, Hades, Hecate, Cernunnos, Caliche, Seredwen, or the Morrigan, which...
JonathanHOST
I'm so happy that was brought up because we're gonna be doing an episode on the Morrigan here soon I've been seeing so many people talk about it, and they're like dude this shit is so real like it Oh, yeah, incredibly real
SeanHOST
you were telling me that story and without getting into it dude Just when you told me the story it gave me chills dude.
RakellaHOST
But we know pomegranates represent life.
RakellaHOST
You know, they represent Persephone and just like her delve into darkness, having eaten those seeds, having to come up once a year and then go back to the underworld.
RakellaHOST
It's very Will and Hannibal.
RakellaHOST
And I just I love it.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
Theseus and Perithous went to Sparta in company, seized the girl as she was dancing in the temple of Artemis Orthia, and fled away with her.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
Their pursuers followed them no farther than Tegea, and so the two friends, when they had passed through Peloponnesus and were out of danger, made a compact with one another that the one on whom the lot fell should have Helen to wife, but should assist the other in getting another wife.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
With this mutual understanding they cast lots, and Theseus won, and taking the maiden, who was not yet ripe for marriage, conveyed her to Aphidnae.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
Here he made his mother a companion of the girl, and committed both to Aphidnus, a friend of his, with strict orders to guard them in complete secrecy.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
Then he himself, to return the service of Perithous, journeyed with him to Epirus, in quest of the daughter of Aeodinius, the king of the Molossians.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
This man called his wife Persephone, his daughter Cora, and his dog Cerberus, with which beast he ordered that all suitors of his daughter should fight, promising her to him that should overcome it.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
However, when he learned that Perithous and his friend were come not to woo, but to steal away his daughter, he seized them both.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
Perithous he put out of the way at once by means of the dog, but Theseus he kept in close confinement.
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The trap is death itself.
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The place had a queen.
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Ereshkigal ruled the dead from a palace called Ganzir, and sometimes the word Ganzir was used for the whole underworld, the way people say the palace to mean the government.
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Her husband changes depending on which story you read.
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A soul needed to pass through all seven to arrive.
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The best known story about this place is the descent of the goddess Inanna.
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Inanna was the queen of heaven and she decided to visit the underworld, which belonged to her older sister Ereshkigal.
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She dressed carefully with a crown jewelry, a breastplate and a royal robe.
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