![]() In her set of interpretive essays on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Foley famously analyzed what she termed “the mother/daughter romance,” suggesting that “for ancient women, Demeter and Persephone may have represented the extraordinary endurance of the bond between women of different generations in the same family.” By contrast, Clay insists in her chapter on the hymn that “while the hymn-poet is. La poesía de Rich ha sido accesible en lengua española a través de la Antología poética, 1951-1981 (1986) y una Antología poética (2003), ambas seleccionadas y traducidas por Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz, y del volumen bautizado como Poemas, 1963-2000 (2002), en tanto en su obra en prosa pueden encontrarse –además de Nacida de mujer- Sobre mentiras, secretos y silencios (1979), Sangre, pan y poesía: prosa escogida, 1979-1985 (2001) y Artes de lo posible (2001). El folleto Twenty-One Love Poems (1977), incluido un año más tarde en Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977, demarca el primer tratamiento explícito de la sexualidad lésbica en su obra poética, que ha reunido en volúmenes sucesivos como Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 (1974), The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984 (1984) y Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (1993). Asume su identidad como lesbiana en 1976, mismo año que publica su trabajo más conocido entre los lectores de lengua española: el ensayo Nacida de mujer, cuyo título completo en una traducción posterior (Nacemos de mujer: la maternidad como experiencia e institución) refleja de un modo más claro la relevancia de esta contribución para el análisis feminista de la maternidad. Alcanza el reconocimiento público a escala nacional con Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems, 1954-1962 (1963), debido tanto a sus cualidades líricas como al tratamiento de temas relacionados con el feminismo, y es galardonada por Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-1972 (1973), culminación de una búsqueda denodada de figuras y metáforas de lo cotidiano tomadas del subconsciente, con el National Book Award de 1974. Then initiates returned home, with a new way of seeing and understanding the cycles of nature and the divine source of love that permeates all dimensions of reality.Īdrienne Rich (Baltimore, 1929), autora y feminista norteamericana, se gradua del Radcliffe College y recibe el Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, que implica la publicación de A Change of World, el primero de sus varios libros de poesía, en 1951. On the ninth day, celebrants witnessed the Sacred Marriage of Heaven and Earth and invoked their powers of fertility for the new crops of grain and fruits, animals, and human offspring. The seventh and eighth nights were the Nights of the Mysteries, when initiates and their teachers entered the Temple of Demeter for the secret part of the rites some details can be inferred from ancient sources. The sixth night was a time of revelry, with more music, dancing, and feasting. The fifth day was a grand procession from Athens to Eleusis, with various rituals along the way. On the fourth night, initiates went to the Asklepion in Athens, to pray for healing dreams envisioning the initiate’s divine purpose in living and what they needed to do, to be aligned with their sacred destiny. The third evening was for sacrifices to the state. On the second day, initiates were called to the sea for ritual cleansing, washed in the womb waters of Mother Earth. The first day was the Gathering of celebrants in the agora of Athens, when an invitation and warning was extended to initiates. ![]() ![]() During this nine-day festival, held every Autumn at Athens and Eleusis, initiates participated in a re-enactment of the mythos of Demeter and Persephone, their unwilling separation and joyful reunion. ![]() This article describes a highly detailed account of the initiation rites, based on ancient Greek sources, and an interpretation from a spiritual feminist viewpoint. The Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone in ancient Greece were an initiation into the most profound of human experiences: birth, sexual union, and death/rebirth. ![]()
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