Motif
all-pervading love as cosmic and natural power
all_pervading_love_as_cosmic_and_natural_power
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome SELENE (LUNA). / ARTEMIS (DIANA). / ARCADIAN ARTEMIS. / EPHESIAN ARTEMIS.; lines 2926-2974 confidence: high
Ephesian Artemis, as love pervading nature, is placed in the Realm of Shades, partly taking roles of Hecate and Persephone; she permits departed spirits to revisit earth, communicate with loved ones, and warn of evil; her love is described as the ruling spirit of the universe and source of nature’s beneficent workings.
The passage describes Ephesian Artemis as embodying a great omnipresent power of love, the ruling spirit of the universe, to whose influence beneficent workings of nature were ascribed.
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