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Hey everybody, I'm new! This is my first post.

I've read a lot of theories and a few are quite plausible. But here's mine: some people have been posting and asking what the significance of Persephone is. It's obvious her name means something and we've established her name comes from the Greek Goddess who was condemned to spend 6 months on earth and 6 months in the underworld. If you're not sure, or you think it's 3 months, look up Persephone at dictionary.com, you'll see it's 6 months each. So it's half of her time here and half down there. This of course, does not explain anything. It shouldn't. The name is simply for symbolic value, not an exact definition of the character. Persephone in MR is a program who is able to 'sample' people's lives through a kiss. What does this mean in terms of a program? It means she downloads herself into people and can somewhat experience their lives. When she did this to Neo, a part of her is inside of him. Half of her (think of the Greek goddess 1/2 here 1/2 there) is in Neo and the other half is still with Merovigian, inside the Matrix. When Neo feels the sentinels, it's because Persephone senses them inside the Matrix. Since half of her is in Neo, there is a link and Persephone stops the sentinels from within the Matrix.

That's what I think. It seems kind of far fetched but I guess we'll find out what really happened November 15th!

Accoeding to greek mithology, persephone was the wife of hades.

i doubt that the softwares from within the matrix have any influence in acting outside of it.
It's Smith who managed to download himself into bane's i/o signal..

And how does Persephones OTHER half (the one in the Matrix) sense the approaching sentinels? Telepathy????

Not to mention that she'll be spread thin by now. A part in Neo, a part in Niobe, a part in Ghost (the latter two she kisses in EtM).

her downloading something through her kisses is VERY probable

The theory has many holes but the thing holding it up is Persephone's name. All the names are significant. Seraph is an angel who protects the Oracle. Morpheus god of dreams, Trinity (the father, the son and the holy ghost, makes up the three, etc.) and so on.

Unless Persephone was also FREED by those from Zion and is plugged into the Matrix half the time and out in Zion the other, there is no other explanation for her name...or is there?

I think she is able to spend time in other people, even when they exit the Matrix, that's how she spends time in the Matrix and time out.

i don't really see yet how her name means she's inside neo.

persephone, as has been pointed out, was the wife of hades. merovingian could very well be the symbolic hades/satan/lucifer of the matrix movies (to see that discussion -- http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f42/t10211.html). i don't think you have to go much farther than that.

So the other half of Persephone's definition according to dictionary.com:

The daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades but rescued by her mother and thereafter spent six months of the year on earth and six months in the underworld"

is to be ignored? We're only supposed to look at the part where she's abducted by Hades and not rescued and spends half her time in someone/at somewhere else? I think there's more to it, think about it.

whether or not she's the mother of the matrix is really neither here nor there. that's a whole other argument that goes on for pages and pages.

what i'm saying, nxs and kelenvor, is that you can't expect the ENTIRE story about a mythological person to be incorporated into the matrix character. as omega so aptly put it, everything about the "real" morpheus does not apply to our movie character, nor can we match everything with the real concept of the trinity with the woman in the movie. so yes, nxs, certain parts can be ignored.

i wasn't saying hades was evil, btw. i was just saying the merovingian could represent both hades and satan.

The names of the characters all have some meaning to a certain extent, I think we all see that. What I'm proposing is only a theory. In fact, I'll admit the other theory about Agent Smith being a part of Neo and the sentinels halting when they sense that this is so is more plausible. But it's fun to come up with these wild guesses, right? Isn't that a part of why we're discussing the movie? If you take a step back and see what we've been talking about, it just proves The Matrix is one of a few movies to be able to inspire such discussions! I think that's something in itself.

I have an idea, but i want you to read ALL of it before responding, ok?

The Matrix v1.0 was, heaven. Persephone, Mero, etc. were all created in this version. However, as it was a monumental failure, it was rewritten, but all the programs were kept and placed in Matrix v2.0 . This is where Mero and Persephone "descend" into "Hades", and where Mero becomes a different man. This is the first "month" of Persephone's impisonment. Each subsequent integral anomaly was another "month", until we get to the sixth anomaly. This is the last "month" that persephone must spend in "Hades", aka Matrix v2.x . Perhaps this fact is foreshadowing, in and of itself, that Neo will break the cycle of anomalies, and restore "heaven on earth", so to speak.

Also, i'm not saying that the Merovingian is evil, persay, but he does represent the "evils" of society (lust, greed, french,...). (I'm just joking, if there are any French out there. I really don't mind the French people, and, like Mero, i love the language)

This is just a thought, but i would really like some feedback, to help refine this idea.

did you know there was no heaven or hell in ancient judaic religion of judaism? Yeah they added it a few hundred years after Christianity

The Architect may seem to be the archetypal God character, but he is anything from omnipotent or omniscient. If he were, he wouldn't have allowed the integral anomaly to occur in the first place, ie "despite my sincerest efforts".

I think that the Programs were allowed to transfer to Matrix v2.0 because their jobs weren't completed, ie it was easier to keep the other programs, with minor changes, than to rewrite everything.

there has always been a heaven in judaism its said that god rests in the seventh heaven and there was heaven and angels b4 god created the world

yeah i had to think about it but there was heaven in judaism.