Definitions for proserpina
proʊˈsɜr pə nə; -pə nipros·er·pina

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1. Proserpina, Proserpinenoun

   goddess of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Persephone

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1. Proserpinanoun

   The ancient Roman goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld, her Greek equivalent is Persephone.

2. Proserpinanoun

   The goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld; the Roman equivalent of Persephone.

3. Proserpinanoun

   26 Proserpina, the asteroid.

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1. Proserpina

   Proserpina ( proh-SUR-pih-nə; Latin: [proːˈsɛrpɪna]) or Proserpine ( PROSS-ər-pyne) is an ancient Roman goddess whose iconography, functions and myths are virtually identical to those of Greek Persephone. Proserpina replaced or was combined with the ancient Roman fertility goddess Libera, whose principal cult was housed in the Aventine temple of the grain-goddess Ceres, along with the wine god Liber. Each of these three deities occupied their own cella at the temple. Their cults were served or supervised by a male public priesthood. Ceres was by far the senior of the three, one of the dii consentes, Rome's approximate equivalent to the Greek Twelve Olympians. She was identified with Greek Demeter and Liber was identified with Bacchus and Dionysus. Libera is sometimes described as a female version of Liber Pater, concerned with female fertility. Otherwise she is given no clear identity or mythology by Roman sources, and no Greek equivalent. Nothing is known of her native iconography: her name translates as a feminine form of Liber, "the free one". Proserpina's name is a Latinisation of "Persephone", perhaps influenced by the Latin proserpere ("to emerge, to creep forth"), with reference to the growing of grain. Proserpina was imported from southern Italy as part of an official religious strategy, towards the end of the second Punic war, when antagonism between Rome's lower and upper social classes, crop failures and intermittent famine were thought to be signs of divine wrath, provoked by Roman impiety. The new cult was installed around 205 BC at Ceres' Aventine temple. Ethnically Greek priestesses were recruited to serve Ceres and Proserpina as "Mother and Maiden". This innovation might represent an attempt by Rome's ruling class to please the gods and the plebs; the latter shared strong cultural ties with Italian magna Graeca. The reformed cult was based on the Greek, women-only Thesmophoria, and was promoted as morally desirable for respectable Roman women, both as followers and priestesses. It was almost certainly supervised by Rome's Flamen Cerealis, a male priesthood usually reserved to plebeians. The new cult might have partly subsumed the Aventine temple's older, native cults to Ceres, Liber and Libera, but it also functioned alongside them. Liber played no part in the reformed cult. Ceres, Proserpina/Libera and Liber are known to have received cult in their own right, at their Aventine temple and elsewhere, though details are lacking. The Roman cult of Mother and Maiden named Proserpina as queen of the underworld, spouse to Rome's king of the underworld, Dis pater, and daughter to Ceres. The cult's functions, framework of myths and roles involved the agricultural cycle, seasonal death and rebirth, dutiful daughterhood and motherly care. They included secret initiations and nocturnal torchlit processions, and cult objects concealed from non-initiates. Proserpina's forcible abduction by the god of the underworld, her mother's search for her, and her eventual but temporary restoration to the world above are the subject of works in Roman and later art and literature. In particular, her seizure by the god of the Underworld – usually described as the Rape of Proserpina, or of Persephone – has offered dramatic subject matter for Renaissance and later sculptors and painters.

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1. proserpina

   Proserpina is a figure from Roman mythology who was the queen of the underworld and the goddess of the seasons, especially spring. She is equivalent to the Greek goddess, Persephone. Proserpina is the daughter of Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, and was famously abducted by Pluto, the god of the underworld, to be his wife. This mythology was often used to symbolize the changing of seasons.

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1. Proserpina

   Proserpina or Proserpine is an ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime. Her Greek goddess equivalent is Persephone. The probable origin of her name comes from the Latin, "proserpere" or "to emerge," in respect to the growing of grain. Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life–death–rebirth deity. She was the daughter of Ceres, goddess of agriculture and crops and Jupiter, the god of sky and thunder.

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1. Proserpina

   the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, who was carried off while gathering flowers by Pluto (q. v.), became Queen of Hades, and is represented as sitting on an ebony throne beside him wearing a crown. According to later tradition Pluto had to allow her to revisit the upper world for two-thirds of the year to compromise matters with her mother, her arrival being coincident with the beginning of spring and her return to Hades coincident with the beginning of winter. She became by Pluto the mother of the Furies.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of proserpina in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of proserpina in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=proserpina
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Proserpina
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proserpina
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=proserpina
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Proserpina