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Proserpine: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1928-1882). Oil on canvas, 1874

Proserpine: Also Proserpina, Persephone; a daughter of Zeus and Demeter, abducted by Hades to be queen of Underground, but allowed to return to the surface of the earth for part of the year (she is also a personification of spring)

This Macintosh's address is:
        persephone.cps.unizar.es
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                     |     |   |___ España (Spain)
                     |     |_______ Universidad de Zaragoza
                     |_____________ Centro Politécnico Superior

Why Persephone?

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	otterley.cps.unizar.es:  Macintosh IIfx, 32 Mb RAM
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Right, these are the titles of the songs in 'Tresaure', Cocteau Twins 1984 LP

But I guess you want to know more about Persephone herself. These links may help you:


The Queen of the Earth is a blend of both Demeter and her
daughter Persephone as well as Eresh Kigal. Demeter was
the Greek Goddess of Grain and of the Bounty of the Earth.
She was one of the Mother Goddesses. Persephone was the
maiden daughter of Demeter who was taken by Hades, the
brother of Zeus and King of the Underworld, down into his
kingdom where she became his "Queen." Eresh Kigal was of
Sumerian origin. She was the Goddess of the Underworld
but was originally a "grain" goddess. The Queen of the Earth
as she appears in this story is as both a Life giving and Life
receiving deity



And what about the icon?

He is SuperLópez, from a comic, created by Jan.