Despoina
This makes Despoina a half-sister to Persephone, whose father is Zeus.
Despoina was worshipped in secretive rites similar to the Eleusinian Mysteries, which focused on Persephone and Demeter.
Connection to Persephone: Despoina and Persephone share thematic similarities as daughters of Demeter, linked to fertility and the underworld.
Persephone
Persephone is a significant figure in Greek mythology.
Proclus, a prominent 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher, referenced seven islands sacred to Persephone in his commentary on Plato’s Timaeus.
Hades, the god of the Underworld, abducted Persephone while she was gathering flowers in a meadow.He took her to the Underworld to be his wife, sparking grief and outrage from her mother, Demeter.
Demeter's sorrow over Persephone's disappearance caused her to neglect her duties, leading to famine and a halt in natural growth on Earth.
Zeus intervened and arranged for Persephone's partial return to the surface.
Before Persephone left the Underworld, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, binding her to the Underworld for part of the year.
Persephone spends a third of the year with Hades (representing winter) and the rest with Demeter (spring and summer).
Persephone was worshiped in the Eleusinian Mysteries, a set of secret religious rites in ancient Greece that promised initiates a better afterlife.
Persephone's only full sibling (sharing both Zeus and Demeter as parents) was Despoina, a lesser-known deity in Greek mythology associated with mysteries and fertility.
Despoina's name, meaning "mistress," reflects her connection to secretive rites similar to those of Persephone and Demeter.
Since Zeus had numerous consorts, Persephone had many half-siblings through him.
The Seven Islands sacred to Persephone
Seven Islands Sacred to Persephone: These islands were dedicated to Persephone, daughter of Zeus, and held religious or cultural significance.
The mention of seven islands sacred to Persephone and three enormous islands suggests a vast network of lands in the Atlantic that had cultural and religious importance in ancient myths, reinforcing Atlantis's grandeur.
The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
By Demeter (Ceres) he had Persephone (Proserpine); by Leto, Apollo and Artemis (Diana); by Dione, Aphrodite (Venus); by Semele, Dionysos (Bacchus); by Maia, Hermes (Mercury); by Alkmene, Hercules, etc., etc.
The Deluge Legends of Other Nations
tell us that in their time there were seven islands consecrated, to Proserpine, and three others of immense extent, of which the first was consecrated to Pluto, the second to Ammon, and the third to Neptune.
The Phoenician history
The children of Kronos were Persephone and Athena.