Safron Rossi’s The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology is an in-depth exploration of a long overlooked mythic and psychic pattern central to women’s psychology. In this book she argues there is a teleology of soul related to korehood—a deep integrity grounded in one’s essential nature and character. Our relationship to this archetypal pattern is central in forging a connection to the sacred and pure interior rhythms of our nature.
When Penelope tells her story to the stranger, who is Odysseus in disguise, she reveals how the loom strategy she used to keep the suitors at bay came from a divine source: “A god from the blue it was inspired me….” So Penelope set up a great loom and for four years wove daily a shroud for Laertes, and each night unraveled what she had woven.