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The answer depended on the region where the story was told. The idea was that she was to spend one month in Hades for each seed she ate. In some places it's as few as 4 in others as many as 8.

6. each seed stands for a month.

ACTUALLY SHE ATE ONLY 4 SEEDS.

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Actually the earliest text, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (ca. 600 BCE) is clear that Persephone ate one seed.  Apollodoros  ca 2AD) agrees. 

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