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![]() Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Haides-a handful of pomegranate seeds-she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. 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. Her mother Demeter despaired at her dissappearance and searched for her the throughout the world accompanied by the goddess Hekate (Hecate) bearing torches. ![]() Once upon a time when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was seized by Haides and carried off to the underworld as his bride. Persephone was titled Kore (Core) (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty. This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife. She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. PERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides (Hades). Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Destroy-Slay Persephone, Athenian red-figure bell krater C5th B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art ![]() Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Will Alistair and Darcy be able to save Pugmire from this threat?Ĭreated by Audioblivious Productions in conjunction with Pugsteady. But this misunderstanding leads to the discovery of a deadly secret deep in the heart of Pugmire society. The police dogs have called Alistair Afghan to discuss the crimes of his valet, Darcy Cat. The world of Pugmire comes alive in this full cast audio drama experience!
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