It's Spring and Demeter is Running!
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Submitted by MJS on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 10:03pm
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UPDATE: It's been Spring in Los Angeles for over two weeks (though officially the pre-Climate Change Calendars say that this year it begins the 20th of March).
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Demeter
New Orleans funk band, right?
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
here in OH
newphew and i built snow castles and peppered each other with exploding balls of fluffy white today. we also went down the hill in the batman sled.
right now, spring is just a dream. back home, it's a tad less snow-covered, but only the birds are singing spring's tune.
Demeter is also the Goddess of Grains
and the bringer of seasons...
wonderful image...blessed are the fecund...
I believe there is a hymn, one of the Homeric ones, to Demeter...tells a rather sad story, as I recall, about her daughter Persephone, who caught the eye of Zeus, not good catching the eye of any of the Gods...
Thank Goddess for springtime
Because as much as I love MJS' work if I had to deal with one more black-and-white somber serious winterscape I would have had to start re-reading Plath to cheer me up. That in jest, but only barely.
Do you eat your nasturtiums? Especially when someone new comes for a meal, I like to use them as garnish and as an integral part of any bitter greens salad or scattered on top of tomato and mozzarella. Kids and old people especially get a huge kick out of eating flowers.
[Health tip, do not eat the oxalis in quantity, very tasty but more than a few can make you quite ill.]
All things are Buddha things...
life and death, eternity
embrace much more than spring
the ear that listens to the world
hears all the seasons sing
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Demeter's daughter (Persephone) was whisked away by Hades, and Demeter so mourned the loss of her daughter that the earth lay barren, and all humanity would have perished, had not Zeus intervened by sending Mercury down to Hades with instructions to bring her back to her mother. Persephone was to be freed, but (alas?) she had eaten a pomegranate seed (the farmer knows this tale) and so was compelled to return to the underworld for one season a year. In winter we sing Demeter's praises--the natural world may seem dead but it isn't: it's vacationing in hell.
btw: Persephone's father is none other than Poseidon, the Greek god who later became known as Detective Neptune. Small world.
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All hail Detective Neptune!
OK, I won't make any jokes about sea ponies.
Some of MJS's Detective Neptune stories are collected here.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.