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Demeter's Heroic Journey
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Status Quo
Living on Olympus with daughter and other Olympians
Maintaining fertile land for ⅔ of the year
Resolution
Crisis
Demeter pouts and “ordain[s] a terrible and brutal year on the deeply fertile earth.”
Demeter restores the earth with fruit, leaves, and flowers
Treasure
Zeus orders Hermes to bring back Persephone
Mother and daughter is reunited
Approach
Metaniera spies on Demeter and is shocked to discover her child in the fire
takes Demophoon away from Demeter
New Life
Assistance
Departure
Withdraws from Olympus and disguises her beauty to walk among men
Hekate and Helios tell her that “No other of the gods was to blame but cloud-gathering Zeus, who gave her to Hades”
Zeus married daughter to Hades
Status Quo
Living on Olympus with daughter and other Olympians
Maintaining fertile land
Called to adventure
Persephone goes missing
Demeter must let go of her daughter for ⅓ of the year
Winter
Demeter's Heroic Journey
Trials
tries to fill empty heart by raising and immortalizing Metaniera’s child, Demophoon
Result
Persephone is allowed to reunite with Demeter ⅔ of the year
Return
“Goddesses left for Olympus and the assembly of the other gods. [Where] they dwell by Zeus [...] inspiring awe and reverence.”