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noun - goddess of the underworld
The daughter of Ceres who became the goddess of the underworld when Pluto carried her away and made her his wife.
PROSERPINA - Proserpina (; Latin: Prserpina [pro.sr.p.na]) or Proserpine () is an ancient Roman goddess whose cult, myths and mysteries were based on those of Gre...
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Proserpina (; Latin: Prserpina [pro.sr.p.na]) or Proserpine () is an ancient Roman goddess whose cult, myths and mysteries were based on those of Greek Persephone and her mother Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and agriculture. The Romans identified Proserpina with their native fertility goddess Libera, daughter of the grain and agriculture goddess Ceres and wife to Liber. In 204 BC, a new "greek-style" cult to Ceres and Proserpina as "Mother and Maiden" was imported from southern Italy, along with Greek priestesses to serve it, and was installed in Ceres' Temple on Rome's Aventine Hill. The new cult and its priesthood were actively promoted by Rome's religious authorities as morally desirable for respectable Roman women, and may have partly subsumed the temple's older, native cult to Ceres, Liber and Libera; but the new rites seem to have functioned alongside the old, rather than replaced them. * Just as Persephone was thought to be a daughter of Demeter, Romans made Proserpina a dau |