I really like to think that in the same place than in the Past,where the young maiden Kore was picking flowers with her playmates: the nymphs in a meadow near Enna, Sicily, in that precise place where she was abducted by Hades to the underworld...I like to think that's this is the very place were was built recently a brand new Sicilian University named Kore alike her...Exactly where in the Past: Kore/Persephone the embodiment of the Earth's fertility was gathering flowers a university of the Futur rush up! Unifying Past and Futur by the intervalsof Time she had the secret.

Becoming the Queen of The Underworld, she was the only one allowed to come back from the death realm by periods. Hades making her eating the tricked pomegranate seeds obliged her to return to the underworld for a time each year. The fruit of the Knowledge taken by Eve was not an apple but a pomegranate. And only the attractive power of the Secret Knowledge was able to make coming back Kore to the Hades by moments..

A lot of things are being transformed near Kore :the nymphs her playmates were changed into Sirens for not having interfered and protected her during her abduction going from the eartn realm to the water realm. The philosopher Empédocles of Sicily wrote that even Kore was linked to the water element...and it reminds me a lot of things... First: the Ancient Egyptians told that lakes were the eyes allowing the underworld Gods to watch the mortals on the surface...And a chilhhod memory suddenly came to me:...In Corsica there is a very ancient game where the children are playing to:" watching Kore"...The play is to recreate a water puddle in the ground by a transparent pane under which they deposit child's treasures: flowers, shells...etc and then recover the pane with earth then time to time in secret, the children go to see their treasure watching it through the pane...There, it is the mortals who are watching Kore by a small replica of a lake...Other thing: When Odysseus (in the Odyssée) went to the underworld and met Kore, he calls her: "The Iron Women" which is strongly resonant in me because the Egyptian god: Ptah ruling in the underworld (the Duat) was named also: "The Iron men" because alike Vulcan/Hephaïstos, he was supervising forge and manufacture of the underearth metals...

Plato named Kore: "Pherepopha" because he said: "because she is wise and touches that which is in motion."(Cratylus)...So she interfers in our Destiny and of course with Time and she brings closer the eras and is a regenerating provider and watch her beloved Sicilian Earth...

puis on recouvre de terre la vitre et de temps en temps en cachette les enfants vont voir leurs trésors en regardant derrière la vitre... Là ce sont les mortels qui regardent Kore à travers un lac simulé... Autre chose: Quand Odysseus (dans l'Odyssée) part dans le monde souterrain et qu'il rencontre Kore, il la nomme:"la dame de fer" ce qui résonne fortement en moi puisque le dieu égyptien Ptah régnant comme Kore dans le monde souterrain (le Duat) était nommé aussi: "homme de fer" puisqu'il dirigeait tel Vulcain les forges et la fabrication des métaux sous la terre... Platon lui nomma Kore:"Pherepopha" car disait-il: "Elle est sage et touche tout ce qui est en mouvement", elle touche donc notre destinée et bien sûr le Temps , rapprochant les époques et prometteuse de régénération, elle veille sur sa terre Sicilienne...

Les deux sycomores aux deux coins sud de ce temple d’Hathor à Memphis représentaient: les deux divins sycomores du «ciel et de la terre»: l’un représentant Hathor donnant naissance à la vie et l’autre: Hathor «redonnant naissance aux âmes», l’un allait chercher loin et profondément avec ses racines dans le sable du désert l’eau de vie et l’autre captait la rosée et la pluie de l' eau du ciel...

Antoine Gigal 2014 - Picture by Patrizia B.Nicholls