Myths And Religion

Oral myths existed throughout the history of humankind regardless of place, culture or language spoken, and they don’t obligatorily relate back to an objective reality. The nature of human being always remained the same, curious and eager to explore, but most of the time they were not able to explain the things surrounding them. That is the time when myths came on the stage, incarnating values and interpreting the origins of nature processes into the clear and accessible for everybody language. Myths combined not only science, religion or philosophy, it was an attempt to explain an unexplainable. These clear ideas were followed in “Demeter and Persephone”, where consolidation of mystical, cosmological, sociological and pedagogical functions
A simple expression “as the year revolved, her daughter could spend one portion of it in the misty darkness and the other two with her mother and the other immortals” gave the people an understanding that particular weather conditions have to be maintained in order for the crops to grow and an establishment of winter is explained in the basic language. Appearances of queen of underworld during the year clearly symbolized the distinction between the seasons, the eternal cycle of
It may be considered that this function could be the most significant, it presents myth as a teacher and basically shows the steps how to live a lifetime regardless of difficulties and circumstances. Many social problems and patterns can be observed in “Demeter and Persephone”, dependence on man and how woman have to obey and consistently adjust to his will “he spoke and the goddess did not disobey the behests of Zeus”. Myth explains that females must accept established patriarchal system of society, after all the events Persephone and her mother, the goddess of august Demeter, partially agreed on conditions, which is ironic, because most of the time it was just an anxiety about the power of woman. Another lesson which was hidden in the story is a fortitude of Demeter. Her pleas were abandoned by each and every God “but none of the gods or mortal men wanted to tell her the truth and none of the birds of omen came to her as truthful messenger”, she relied only on herself and still never gave up in her pursuit to save Persephone. It also can be connected with the power and sorrow of motherly love, despite anything, nothing can beat it. At the end of the day, Demeter stood up against all-mighty Zeus and dreadful Hades, which is kind of a paradox, on one side there is an obedient woman, always happy to please her male-ruler,