Artist	Song
Natalie Merchant	Wonder
FrentT	Girl
Jewel	Little Sister
Toad The Wet Sprocket	One Little Girl
Tom Waits	A Little Rain
Heather Nova	Straight To Hell
David Bowie	Down In The Underground
Eliza Gilkyson	Persephone
Tangerine Dream	The Dance
Jane Siberry	My Mother Is Not The White Dove
Paula Cole	Watch The Woman's Hands
Dead Can Dance	De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow)
Sarah McLachlan	Mary
The Cranberries	The Icicle Melts
Tori Amos	Winter
Liquorice	Breaking The Ice
Spool Forka Dish	Come Alive
Gabrielle Roth	Seducing Hades
Nick Drake	Winter Is Gone
Joan Osborne	Lumina

Comment:

An Imbolg mix, telling the story of Persephone through contemporary songs -- a beloved little girl, apparently all innocence and purity, goes missing. She has been kidnapped, taken down to Hades, where the dark lord of death strives to seduce her and make her his wife. Meanwhile her mother, the earth goddess Demeter, searches grief-stricken for her, letting the world wither in an icy winter in her single-minded sorrow. Finally, with the help of Grandmother Hecate and the youthful god called Hermes, Demeter finds her Persephone; the icicle melts, the ice breaks, life returns, winter disappears from the world. Light reappears. But because she ate six pomegranate seeds while in Hades, she is bound to return for six months of every year, during which time her mother mourns again and winter returns, only for Persephone's re-emergence in the spring to herald the return of warmth and light and life to the world.

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