Brimo
In ancient Greek religion and myth, the epithet ''Brimo'' ( grc, Βριμώ ; "angry" or "terrifying") may be applied to any of several goddesses with an inexorable, dreaded and vengeful aspect that is linked to the land of the Dead: Hecate, Persephone, Demeter Erinyes—the angry, bereft Demeter—or Cybele. ''Brimo'' is the "furious" aspect of the Furies. In the solemn moment when Medea picks the dire underworld root for Jason, she calls seven times upon Brimo, "she who haunts the night, the Nursing Mother Kourotrophos.html"_;"title="'Kourotrophos">'Kourotrophos''_In_black_weed_and_murky_gloom_she_dwells,_Queen_of_the_Dead". The_Thessalian_or_Thrace.html" "title="Kourotrophos">'Kourotrophos''.html" ;"title="Kourotrophos.html" ;"title="'Kourotrophos">'Kourotrophos''">Kourotrophos.html" ;"title="'Kourotrophos">'Kourotrophos'' In black weed and murky gloom she dwells, Queen of the Dead". The Thessalian or Thrace">Thracian word ''Brimo'' was foreign in Attica. Brimo-Hecate was wor ...
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Persephone
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone ( ; gr, Περσεφόνη, Persephónē), also called Kore or Cora ( ; gr, Κόρη, Kórē, the maiden), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld after her abduction by and marriage to her uncle Hades, the king of the underworld.Martin Nilsson (1967). ''Die Geschichte der Griechische Religion'' Vol I pp 462–463, 479–480 The myth of her abduction, her sojourn in the underworld, and her temporary return to the surface represents her functions as the embodiment of spring and the personification of vegetation, especially grain crops, which disappear into the earth when sown, sprout from the earth in spring, and are harvested when fully grown. In Classical Greek art, Persephone is invariably portrayed robed, often carrying a sheaf of grain. She may appear as a mystical divinity with a sceptre and a little box, but she was mostly represented in the process of being carried off by Hades. ...
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