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Perna Studios is very excited to announce our third trading card set entitled Classic Mythology. This set will focus on 5 timeless Classic Mythologies that we have all come to love and enjoy during our lifetime. The mythologies spotlighted in this set are Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic and Native American. We have an impressive list of artists involved on this set working on both base/promo cards and sketch cards. Set scheduled to be released in early Spring 2014.
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This awesome sketch art card of Demeter & Persephone from Greek Mythology is drawn by the very talented artist Molly Brewer 
for our Classic Mythology II trading card set.
Demeter – Greek Mythology – Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, and the seasons. Her common surnames are Sito (as the giver of food or corn/grain and Thesmophoros (as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society). She was also known as a “Mother-Goddess”. Demeter had four children Persephone, Arion, Plutus and Philomelus. Some of her symbols include the torch, lion, cornucopia and sheaves of wheat.
Kore (Persephone) – Greek Mythology – Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and the harvest-goddess Demeter. Persephone was the Queen of the Underworld in Greek Mythology. She was abducted by Hades, the god-king of the Underworld and made his consort and Queen of the Underworld. The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation (Kore) which shoots forth in Spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest. Persephone as a vegetation goddess (Kore) and her mother Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon. Her symbol is grain.
Persephone was titled Kore (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty. Once upon a time when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was seized by Hades and carried off to the underworld as his bride. Her mother Demeter despaired at her disappearance and searched for her the throughout the world accompanied by the goddess Hekate bearing torches. When she learned that Zeus had conspired in her daughter's abduction she was furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was returned. Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Hades--a handful of pomegranate seeds--she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. Her annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of the meadows and the sudden growth of the new grain. Her return to the underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of growth.
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