It’s canon that hades and Persephone kept chickens. Not like, for eggs or anything. They kept house chickens in the underworld. Chickens living in the underworld with little feathers in diapers and u n d e r w o r l d c h i c k e n s
can the classics major side of tumblr explain this? like, are the chickens for pets? are chickens sacred to hades? WHY CHICKENS?
Chickens were indeed sacred to Hades and Persephone and an example of this are the
terracotta votive tablets from Locri -the ones of the pictures-. There are some books about this subject like Iconography of Religions by Bianchi or Locrian Maidens by Redfield.
The cock/chicken “became the chthonic bird, and was used on tombs, as emblematic of the hope of a reawakening to life”. (Peters) and it is also refered as “an infernal animal of passage” by Bernabe in his book Instructions for the Netherworld: the orphic gold tablets.He also says: ”Cocks allude to the world of the afterlife: as intermediaries between the soul and the Beyond, they intercede between the world of the dead and that of the living”.
Remember Persephone was the goddess of renewal, so at least in Locri, the cock was an usual attribute of her. And in other cultures cocks-chickens were seen as animals related to renewal and life (eggs have that symbolism tooo).
😀 so. chickens for Hades and Persephone all the way.
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