[caption id="attachment_17852" align="alignright" width="300"] The reborn goddess (Persephone) as a sheaf of wheat (carved marble relief, Classical, Eleusis, Greece. c. fifth century b.c.)[/caption] My grandfather was a farmer in rural Minnesota on land that was...

Over the last several months, we have been sharing MythBlasts with you: tastes of a mythic idea framed in not only Joseph Campbell's work, but together with historic and contemporary mythologists. We are so glad...