Demeter was driven mad by her daughter’s disappearance. It was when the river Sion washed up the bells of Persephone that Demeter knew something dreadful had happened to her daughter. Furious that they were unable to protect her daughter, she cursed them with plumed bodies, scaly feet and wings they would now be called The Sirens. When she asked the Nymphs that she had left to watch over her daughter, they had no answer. When Demeter returned, her daughter was nowhere to be found. Upon seeing her friend descend deep into the underworld, she began to cry until she melted into a pool of her own tears form in the river Sion. The nymph Sion had seen the abduction, and she attempted to rescue Persephone, but she was no match for Hades. He grabbed Persephone before she was able to scream for help. From that chasm emerged Hades and his chariot of black horses. When she stooped down to pick the flower, the earth beneath her began to quake, and a gaping chasm soon appeared. Wandering into the garden alone, Persephone saw the narcissus flower and was immediately drawn to its beauty. Knowing that the nymphs would never let Persephone out of their sight, for fear of Demeter’s wrath, Zeus had Gaia plant a narcissus flower in a nearby garden.
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If you use any of the content on this page in your own work, please use the code below to cite this page as the source of the content.The next morning, Demeter and her daughter descended upon the earth, and Persephone was left with the nymphs of the sea as her guides and Watchers while her mother tended to the earth. Persephone’s claim on Zeus was during the autumn and the winter. The two goddesses must share him for six months out of the year. When she refuses to give him up, Zeus must again intervene with a similar resolution. When he dies, Aphrodite gives him to Persephone for safekeeping, but the goddess falls in love with him herself. While Persephone is more reasonable and compassionate than her fierce, but fair husband, she causes conflict when she does a favor for Aphrodite.Īpparently the goddess of love has fallen for the beautiful youth Adonis. There is also a story about these two seasons that concerns Persephone as the queen of the Underworld. While she is with Hades, the earth feels Demeter’s lament during autumn and winter. The earth experiences spring and summer while Persephone and Demeter are together. When Hermes guides her out of the underworld and back to her mother, the earth begins to thaw. They each get six months of the year with her. He decrees that Persephone must be returned to Demeter for everyone’s sake, and that she and Hades must share their time with her. But it this instance, he has to consider the fate of the world. Zeus is usually a stickler for the rules, unless it restricts him from getting something that he truly wants.
Supposedly unbeknownst to Hades, Persephone had swallowed several pomegranate seeds. The underworld has many rules, one of which is that should a mortal consume anything while in the underworld, that mortal cannot leave it.
Zeus appeals to Hades, but finds out that the problem is a lot more complicated than just asking for her release. Crops die, animals become barren, and the land becomes cold and lifeless. However, when Demeter’s horrible sadness causes her to neglect her duties as a goddess, the earth begins to suffer. At first Zeus does not see a need to seek out Hades and confront him about the abduction of Persephone. He sweeps her away to the depths of the kingdom of the dead.ĭemeter looks everywhere for her child, causing mayhem and destruction as she goes. From the chasm, Hades bears upon her riding his monstrous chariot pulled by magnificent black stallions. As she attempts to gather them, a great chasm opens in the earth. While picking flowers with her companions, Persephone is lured away from the group by the most interesting, beautiful, and sweet-smelling blooms she has ever encountered. Persephone is a living example of youth, beauty, and life, and draws the attention of the king of the dead (Not to be confused with death itself, who is Thanatos). Her mother is also affectionately known as Mother Nature. Persephone is a true nature child, being the daughter of the goddess of the harvest. The young goddess is also the daughter and niece of Zeus, and the wife and niece of Hades when she becomes the queen of the Underworld. Persephone’s story actually focuses more on her mother, Demeter, and what happens when Persephone disappears.
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