Persephone Case

I did my project on peresphone. She is the goddess of the underworld. Apparently, in the beginning, there was no spearation of seasons, just never ending good crops. One day Persephone was in a field picking flowers when her uncle hades burst out of the ground and grabbed her and pulled her into his chariot, and took her to the underworld. He told her he wanted her to be queen of the underworld. Persephone was very sad in the underworld. But hades would not let her go. Persephone was so sad she would not eat or drink anything. Demeter was lookig everywhere for her daughter and could not find her. Finally she went to her brother Zeus, which was Persephones father, and asked him to help find Persephone. Zeus told hades to give her back. But hades said he would if she didn't eat or drink anything from the land of the dead. Persephone had not eaten much but she very fond of pomergranate seeds turns out she ate six seeds. When her daughter was abducted and taken to the underworld, Demeter refused to nourish the earth. Hades dragged her to the underworld; her dad Zeus told him it was okay to take her but he took it alittle bit literally hades was also her uncle. Her mother stoped all food from growing until she returned. One third of the year she is with hades, another one third of the year serving as a hand maid to zeus and the last one third with her mother. Flowers would bloom and get sunny for the return of peresphone and when she left it began cold and many crops died. Peresphone had no kids. Her mother, Demeter, gave her this name at her birth with the idea of keeping her a virgin goddess as her mother did not trust men, immortal or otherwise. Persephone means "she who swallows the light" She had siblings her mother had children with poseidon. Persephone eventually started to love hades although she was clearly loved Adonis. Whether she loved him romantically or as a friend is not recoded but she felt strongly enough about him to fight with Aphrodite over him rights to him.

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