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Proserpina
/ prəʊˈsɜːpɪnə /
noun
- the Roman goddess of the underworld Greek counterpartPersephone
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Neptune also loved the goddess Ceres, and followed her during the long time that she spent in search of her daughter Proserpina.
She sat for a long time on a stone by the roadside, mourning her lost Proserpina, until a little girl came by, driving some goats.
The patient old earth smiled again on Proserpina's return, for then her mother gave the blighted vegetation a redoubled care.
Hecate, the goddess of the lower world, sometimes identified with Proserpina, and sometimes with Diana.
Moreover, as we have already seen, even Chaucer called the fairy-king Pluto and the queen Proserpina.
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