\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b \cf7 The Union of Poseidon with Demeter \par
\b0 Demeter was roaming in search of her daughter\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht11617 Persephone
\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , who had been \b \cf4 \ATXht1009 abducted by Hades\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , when her brother\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht5 Poseidon\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 \cf7 began to pursue her in order to satisfy his lust. But the goddess, tired and disheartened after so
much wandering and angry with the Olympians who had tacitly assented to her daughter's abduction, had no wish to unite with anyone, least of all a god. In order to be left in peace, she turned herself into a mare and hid herself among the herds of Kin
g Oncus, the grandson of\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht9 Apollo\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , which were grazing in Arcadia. But Demeter's trick did not deceive Poseidon: the god recognized her and at once turned himself into a stallion to mount her. The outraged goddess was
overcome with fury, so that in Arcadia she was as one of the Eumenides or Furies (Demeter\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht10511 Erinys\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 ), until she washed away her anger in the river Ladon. Out of this bestial union came the horse Arion and a daughte
r whose name was never pronounced as it formed part of the mysteries linked to the cult of the goddess.\par
