The Indonesian Mythology

Persephone, who was known as core the maiden or the virgin, was conceived of zeus. Her mother was demeter, the cretan goddess of agriculture and the fruitful soil. Persephones cries had been heard only by demeter, her mother, and hecade, a goddess of the moon. When the mother bereaved sow tried to trace her daughter, she found that her footprints had been obliterated by those of a pig. pigs play such an important role in the rites of demeter and persephone. In a festival celebrated in memory of the sorrows an later joy of Demeter and Persephone, suckling pigs were offered - suggestive of an earlier human sacrifice