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Everyone’s first and favorite Maiden Archetype is Persephone, flower-faced daughter of the Mother Goddess Demeter. Almost everyone has encountered the basic story at some point.

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While the Mother is busy calling the plants forth from the earth, her little daughter plays with her friends in the flower fields. Her uncle, Hades, ruler of the Underworld, catches sight of her and decides to abscond with her.

He erupts from his dark realm in his chariot, snatches the maiden and disappears with her into the depths. Demeter wanders, mourning her daughter’s loss, refusing to allow the crops to grow.

The Gods finally intervene and Hades is pressured into giving up his Bride. But he persuades her to eat some pomegranate seeds while she is still in the Underworld, guaranteeing that she will have to return to spend the same amount of months with him as seeds she consumes (the numbers vary).

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The story is generally presented as an Innocence to Experience story and indeed it fits that trope perfectly. When we first meet our maiden, playing on the broad plain of Nysos, she doesn’t even have a name. It wasn’t unusual in the ancient world to put off naming babies until they reached a certain age, as infant mortality was so uncertain.

It be unusual to let a kid go nameless until pubescence, but such was the case with Demeter’s daughter, who was simply referred to as Kore, which means Maiden or Little Girl. The Kore’s childishness and innocence is emphasized by this.   Her name, and with it her attendant identity and power, are bestowed upon her later when she achieves status as a married woman. Little girl, passive, featureless, without identity, just a pretty little cipher, playing in the flowers with her little friends, her only words a scream for her mommy as the earth closes over her little head.  

But let’s backtrack and take a closer look at this girl.

She’s on the plain of Nysos, at least in the Homeric hymn. Other ancient authors from other places like to claim the honor.

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Herein lies one of the rabbit holes down which you can romp like a wild hare and procrastinate on actual writing for days. Nysos is a spot sacred to the God Dionysus, famed for his wild, ecstatic female followers, the maenads. Right at the start of the tale, this puts an intriguing frisson of feral power into the tale of our girl. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter lists an overwhelming roster of ancient aristocracy, but two especially interesting ones are Artemis and Athena (whose archetypal characters we’ll be exploring further in later entries). Two of the Parthenoi, or Virgin Goddesses, Artemis and Athena are females who are not subject sexually or otherwise to men, and whose wildness and ferocity make them objects of disquiet and even fear.

Their presence at the scene prior to the abduction can be mansplained away easily enough, but it should still give one pause.