Persephone Speaks

People have a lot of different names for me: Persephone, Kore, Eve, just to name a few. Oh, did you think we were different? Should I have fed your Adam a pomegranate instead of an apple? Would that have made it more clear that there’s really only one story, exile from the garden? And it’s been mistold, time out of mind. Why? Because somewhere along the way, we allowed the foolish men to become the scribes and tell the stories.

Presumably, we were too busy tending the children to notice what they were doing, until it was too late and the roles were cast, the foolish men indicting us to cast themselves in a better light. If we’re so much more persuasive than they are, why don’t they get out of the way and let us do the work that needs to be done? Because they are afraid of us: they fear our courage, our knowledge, and our voices which all have the power to bring their impotent fragility to light.

Hades never abducted me, and I was not created from Adam’s rib. I am Spring itself, and I reign in the underworld. I am not his subject—I am his queen, and I am the goddess who brings your spring fever as well as the goddess who decides your fate, unless I find you boring. In that case, I defer to my husband.

If the mortals were especially foolish during their lives, I send my brother Hermes to fetch our cousin Circe to me, and we have such wicked fun, my cousin and I. She brings her potions and powders down to my fire, she with power to make men (and women) appear as they truly are. She is powerless among children, who are protected by their innocence, but woe be unto the mortals who try to shirk their duty by clinging to that innocence past the age of reason. Intellectual and moral irresponsibility are the greatest detriment to mortal life, and I am ruthless when they stand before me.

**** If you liked this, please read Eve Speaks! I'm just getting started with my subversion.

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