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Demeter vows that she will not let fruit grow on the earth until Persephone is returned?
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Yes. That was why there was a giant famine.
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What is important about Demeter?
In Greek Mythology Demeter is the goddess of harvest. She controls grains, the Earth's fertility, and the seasons. In ancient Greece harvesters often gave her offerings and prayed to her in hope of a good harvesting year.
Did Hades ever get married?
Hades did actually get married. The story goes like this:Persephone, daughter of Demeter and Zeus, was playing in the fields while her mother was tending to the earth. Hades saw her and thought her the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. He came up from a hole in the earth and swept Persephone back to the Underworld. Persephone was lonely and took to wandering the gardens.Meanwhile, Demeter had gone on a crazy search for her daughter. When she couldn't find Persephone, Demeter went to Zeus, begging he help her find their daughter. Zeus was able to find Persephone and allowed her to come back to her mother as long as she hadn't eaten the fruit of the Underworld.Unfortunately, Persephone managed to eat seven pomegranate seeds. She had been terribly hungry and said it had onlybeen a few seeds. But Hades- desperate to keep his beloved- replied that the seeds were enough to matter.Hades and Demeter made a deal. Persephone had to stay in the Underworld for half the year and could go back to her mother for the other half as long as Persephone married Hades. Demeter and Persephone agreed.And that's how Hades was married.
What did Demeter feel when her daughter was taken?
When Demeter's daughter Persephone was taken by Hades the god of the underworld, she was heartbroken and searched for her everyday. She found her but it was too late. Persephone had eaten some of the underworld fruit. The deal was to stay with her mother for the Spring and Summer, and being Hades's queen for the Winter and Autumn.
What is the myth about Persephone birth?
Hades (Pluto is the Roman version of Hades) is the Greek god of the dead and the underworld. Persephone is the daughter of Demeter, Greek goddess of the harvest and growing plants. Hades saw Persephone, decided he was in love with her and kidnapped her. Demeter mourned the loss of her daughter and the world went barren of growing plants. Eventually the gods found Persephone in the underworld with Hades, but before she was found she had eaten six pomogranate seeds. Because she had eaten of the fruit of the underworld, she was bound to stay. The gods worked out an agreement that Persephone would spend 6 months of the year with Hades in the underworld, one month for each seed eaten, and would spend the rest of the year with Demeter. This is the explanation for the changing of the seasons - when Persephone is with Demeter, plants grow because Demeter is happy to have her daughter back. When Persephone returns to the underworld, Demeter grieves and the world goes barren, aka the seasons turn to winter.
Why does hades eventually agree to allow Persephone to return to earth?
Loop hole, Persephone only ate some of the pomegranate fruit, not the whole.
Who is the Greek god of plants?
Demeter is the goddess of harvest. Her daughter Persephone is the goddess of flowers. Hegemone was a goddess of flowering and bearing fruit. Additionally there were plant spirits such as the nymphs.
How did Hades fall in love with Persephone?
Hades fell in love with Persephone when he saw her picking flowers in a meadow and decided to abduct her to the underworld to be his queen. Persephone's mother, Demeter, was devastated by her daughter's disappearance and persuaded Zeus to bring her back, but because Persephone had eaten pomegranate seeds in the underworld, she had to spend part of the year there, leading to the changing of the seasons.
What natural phenomenon is explained by the story of Persephone marrying Hades?
According to Legend, Persephone was trapped in the Underworld After Hades had captured her, while there she ate 6 pomagranet seeds. When her mother, Demeter (goddess of the Harvest) was looking for her the earth went cold, rainy, snowy and all around horrible because she wasnt there to regulate it. When she found her daughter she had tried to take her home, but Hades said that the girl ate fruit therefore had to stay. Zeus, persephone's father dictated that Persephone would marry Hades and live with him for 6 months of the year, During which time Demeter would cry and suffera and the earth would turn cold. This wsa the Greek's explanation of the Seasons.
What is Persephone's background story?
Persephone is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of harvest. One day, when Persephone went to the garden, along with her mother and her friends, she found a strange flower. She wanted it and tried to pull it out. When the flower came out, Hades, ruler of the Underworld, grabbed her wrist and pulled her into the Underworld with him. Her friends saw what had happened, and so they ran to Demeter to tell her the story. Demeter was crushed. Whenever she walked by plants and crops, they all died and withered. Meanwhile, Persephone is in the Underworld with Hades. Hades explains to her why she was in the underworld. He wanted her to be his wife. Persephone was angry. She missed her mother and her home above. Hades offered her food, but Persephone refused. She was hungry, so she ate a seed of a pomegranate. Thunder clapped, and Zeus appeared. Zeus told Persephone that since she ate some Underworld fruit, she was to stay in the Underworld forever. Persephone was sad and pleaded to see her mother again. Zeus thought it over, and told Persephone that she would be able to see her mother every spring. Since it was spring, Zeus brought Persephone up to Earth and reunited with her mother. As soon as Persephone came up, all the plants, flowers and crops that Demeter killed were replaced with new, colorful and beautiful flowers and fresh crops and plants. Persephone told her mother the story about her capture, and Demeter was sad at first. But all she was happy about right then was to see her daughter once again. THE END.
Persephone was carried off by which immortal?
Hades stole Persephone. Aphrodite and her child took pity on Hades, shot him with an arrow of love, and left. Hades, now entranced in a love spell, found Persephone and took her against her own will to the underworld. It is said that if you eat fruit of the underworld, you stay there forever. Persephone ate a pomegranate and Hades claimed her as his wife. Fortunately for Persephone, she only ate 1/4 of the fruit and when the distraught Demeter, Persephone's mother, finally found her, Persephone was allowed to visit the normal world again but for only 3/4 of the year. (She's supposedly taken back to the underworld during the winter time, hence Demeter, goddess of the seasons, etc., being sad once more and letting the season of winter go cold and unable to grow things.)
What do you do with the pomogranates in mythology?
In Greek mythology, Demeter (the nature goddess) had a daughter named Persephone (per-se-phony), one day Persephone was kidnapped by Hades (the lord of the dead) because he wanted her to marry him. She hated being in the underworld, meanwhile, Demeter was extremely depressed because her daughter was missing, she stopped doing her job, and the world fell into a long hard winter. in the underworld Hades though of a way to keep persephone there, he wanted her to eat the fruit of the dead (the pomogranate). She refused to eat it, eventually she was convinced to eat it, and she loved it, it was the best thing she had ever eaten, but there was a catch, for every seed she ate, Persephone had to stay in the underworld for a month, three of four months later she returned to her mother explaining why she was gone, and every year she returns to the underworld so she can eat a few more of the seeds, Demeter becomes depressed, and there is winter.
Who is Persephone the daughter of?
Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Demeter had her daughter kidnapped from her by Hades. Then Hermes helped her get her back and they later learns that her daughter had eaten the fruit of the dead (a pomegranate) which means she had to spend 6 months of every year being her Uncle Hades's wife. This story explains the seasons. Since Demeter is the Goddess of Grain and nature on Earth when her daughter is with her (summer and spring) the land is full of great grains and beautiful crops and fruit growth. When her daughter is away (winter and fall) she misses her daughter and the land is very bare. Eventually Persephone turned older and stayed down there full time and she is ironically called the Goddess of anti light even though Hades describes her as a glowing light and he has a realm in hell named after her which consists of the only spot of light in all of hell.
