Talk:Persephone
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This entry still reads like a page out of Bulfinch's Mythology. It needs to be entirely rethought. Wetman 19:38, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Well...what are the problems, specifically? And what's with all these mythology articles saying so-and-so is a "life-birth-death" god? I thought that was an outdated argument. Adam Bishop 23:31, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Yeah, someone seems to have got bee in their bonnet about the eniautos daimon hypothesis and went around pasting it in as accepted fact everywhere. A few months ago I tried to rephrase most of them in neutral POV. I just found a snippy remark here about Frazer-doubters being a "handful of Christian apologists." *Sigh*. Rephrased in neutral POV and moved to end of article. Bacchiad 00:35, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Perhaps the entry needs a separate section on Persephone/Demeter aside from the Olympian context into which they fit so uncomfortably. Wetman 01:11, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
"Some sources say..."
"Some sources also say that, since kind-hearted Demeter did not want the people to starve in winter, she taught them how to harvest and store food; other sources do not mention this." The source is apparently My Big Coloring Book of Heathenish Myths. One of Demeter's epithets is "implacable." All genuine Greek myth has specific sources in literature, in ritual or in iconography. We can't just invent stuff like this any more. --Wetman 00:05, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)