HALLOWEEN 1::
Ancient agrarian folklore, with equally ancient pagan roots. Related to the dead and the Underworld of ancient legends.

A Return to the Underworld. In what is said to be the most ancient myth from Mesopotamia, Inanna (later aka Phoenician Asht'rt; Greek Demeter; Apuleius 'the natural mother of all things') descends into the Netherworld. A later form of the myth from ancient Greece, Demeter's daughter Persephone (Kore; Proserpina) returns to the Netherworld, when the pomegranate splits open as it ripens. Time: October - November. The myth is a metaphoric representation of the sowing of the cereals.

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