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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Proserpina
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**Domain**: The underworld, spring, grain, the seed and its return
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**Symbol**: Pomegranate, sheaf of grain, torch, narcissus
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**Greek Equivalent**: Persephone
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## Overview
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Proserpina is the Roman queen of the underworld and, in the same breath, the goddess of spring — the two facts held together in a single life. Daughter of [Ceres](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/ceres), she was gathering flowers when [Pluto](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/pluto) opened the earth and carried her below to reign beside him. Her mother’s grief laid the world barren, and only a bargain restored her: because Proserpina had eaten seeds of the pomegranate in the underworld, she must return there for part of each year. Her descent is winter; her rising is spring. She is the seed that must be buried before it can grow.
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She is therefore a threshold goddess, belonging wholly to neither world. Above, she is the tender green of the returning year; below, she is a dread queen, sovereign over the dead beside her husband. To know her is to understand that the same power governs the grave and the garden — that what goes down does not go down forever.
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## Differences from Persephone
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The myth follows the Greek Persephone closely, and the Roman telling — most fully in Ovid and in Claudian’s later epic — keeps its shape while giving her mother [Ceres](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/ceres) the emotional center as the grieving searcher whose sorrow explains the seasons. The core meaning is unchanged: an abduction, a bargain sealed by the pomegranate, and a cycle of descent and return written into the turning year.
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## Related
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- Persephone — Greek equivalent
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- [Pluto](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/pluto) — Husband and king of the underworld
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- [Ceres](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/ceres) — Mother, goddess of the harvest
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- [Death](/knowledge/tarot/major-arcana/death) — The Major Arcana card of descent, ending, and transformation
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- [The High Priestess](/knowledge/tarot/major-arcana/the-high-priestess) — The card of hidden knowledge and the threshold between worlds
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- [Mythology](/knowledge/mythology)
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- [Roman Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology)
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