Deep Ties

                                                                            Zagreus - Greek God - Instagram Zagreus is a prince of the Underworld, whose origin is complicated. He was believed to be the god of blood, rebirth and hunting. According to Aeschylus, Zagreus was the son of Hades and Persephone, and sometimes he suggests that he was Hades himself. Another myth goes that Zagreus was the son of Zeus in the form of a serpent, and Persephone. After the infant was born, Hera, the wife of Zeus was so jealous that she incited the mighty Titans to kidnap and kill Zagreus. Zeus was proud of his son who was born with horns and desired to make him his successor. He sent him to Mt. Ida along with his protective thunderbolts to be protected by the dancing Curetes.           ...

                                                                                           The Paganista The letter Y or the equivalent of it did not exist in the Greek alphabet, and so, there are no names starting with it. Hence, I am writing about Yaga, the Slavic Goddess who is supposed to be the counterpart of Persephone, the Greek Goddess of the Underworld as she was married to Hades, and hence, known as the Dark Goddess. There were thirteen dark goddesses across the mythology of the world. They were Hecate, Lilith, Baba Yaga, Persephone, Nyx, Kali, The Morrigan, Oya, Sekhmet, Freya, Morgan le Fay, Erishkigal and Circe. The very names of some of these dark goddesses can send a chill down our spines. However, as in everything in life, the dark and lig...