ORPHEUS

DEMETER

PERSEPHONE (KORE = "Girl")       +      HADES
                  PROSERPINE                    +      PLUTO    (for the Romans)
 

 APOLLO              +         The Muse Calliope
                  I
                         ORPHEUS             +            EURYDICE
                              (orph- )                         (vast  / justice or rule)

MUSIC AND ENCHANTMENT

Orpheus singing; Thracian men listen     # 1       # 2

The story in Ovid

DEATH OF ORPHEUS          # 1      #2     #3    #4

Two women attack Orpheus    # 1     $2     #3    #4
 

ORACULAR HEAD FLOATS TO LESBOS

Orpheus in the underworld      Hades & Persephone

MYSTERY RELIGION

ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE, REVELATION

PROPHETS AND SHAMANS  (by Walter Burkert, copyrighted)

A DIVERGENT THEOGONY  (different from Hesiod's)

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