The Blessed Dead
sample tin
fall of 2025
Devotional tea for Hades and Persephone
Two parts Lavender Earl Gray, two parts Lapsang Souchang, one part Pomegranate Ceylon. A focus on Hades, but also on his happiness. To be served either gently, with an abundance of sugar and cream, or strong and dark and bitter, brewed for hours and forgotten and remembered.
High caffeine | Steep at 212° for 3 mins
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ingredients & lore
blended with black tea, lavender, lapsang souchong, natural pomegranate flavor, raspberries, raspberry leaves, orange, blue cornflowers, natural vanilla flavor, natural bergamot flavor & natural creme flavor
teas: lapsang souchong, earl grey lavender & pomegranate
HADES you look like the summer sun. i could live in the spring-tide of your eyes. i will make you a queen, i will love you with my whole cruel self. i will give you anything you desire. speak its name and it is yours.
PERSEPHONE my father rules the open skies. my mother birthed me in a golden wind-struck field. there is nothing underground that i covet.
HADES you are the only thing that blooms down here. i’ll build you ceiling-skies of sapphires, make clouds of pure diamond. all the floors you touch will turn to gold. i’ll build you whatever life you want. stay with me, stay with me, stay with me.
PERSEPHONE you cannot make freedom out of expensive pretty things.
HADES i am a god. i can do anything.
PERSEPHONE you cannot make me love you.
HADES [on his knees] i can scrape myself away, par down to the bone trying. i can prostrate myself—here, before you!—and rip my heart out of my ribs so that you may hold it in your shaking milk-white hands.
PERSEPHONE and if i do not want your heart?
HADES i will give you anything, my dark and darling wife. anything you ask.
HADES what would you have of me? what would you have?
PERSEPHONE [her hands around his throat] i would have your kingdom, husband mine. i would have all that you have and all that you are. will you give it? will you give it?
HADES i will give it, i will give it, i will give it.
-Elizabeth Hewer
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