Pomegranate seeds! YUM!! (well she technically didn't eat them, she sucked on them...)
Persephone did eat something in the Underworld. She was given pomegranate seeds to eat, which she did, thus binding her to the Underworld for half of the year.
No, but Persephone ate the pomegranate seeds, and was bound to the underworld for six months out of the year. Wiki on!!
Persephone stays in the Underworld for half of the year (six months) and is allowed to return to Olympus for the other half.
Because the pomegranate was food from the Underworld, she had eaten this food and could not leave the Underworld (death).
If she ate anything, she would've had to stay in the underworld. This happened when she ate a pomegranate which had three seeds. Therefore, she would have to stay in the underworld for three seasons out of four.Once she ate the food of the underworld, she would be forced to stay there.
If she ate anything, she would've had to stay in the underworld. This happened when she ate a pomegranate which had three seeds. Therefore, she would have to stay in the underworld for three seasons out of four.Once she ate the food of the underworld, she would be forced to stay there.
Hades kidnapped her and she ate 6 pomegranate seeds in the Underworld which trapped her there.
If she ate anything, she would've had to stay in the underworld. This happened when she ate a pomegranate which had three seeds. Therefore, she would have to stay in the underworld for three seasons out of four.Once she ate the food of the underworld, she would be forced to stay there.
Persephone ate of the pomegranate in the Underworld and so had to return to the Underworld every year.
Persephone could not go back to Earth because she ate pomegranate seeds while in the underworld, which tied her to the realm of the dead. As a result, she had to spend part of the year in the underworld as the wife of Hades, and the other part on Earth with her mother, Demeter. This myth explains the changing of the seasons, with Persephone's time in the underworld corresponding to winter.
Persephone ate of the pomegranate in the Underworld and thus had to stay in the Underworld for part of each year - during winder she was with Hades; during spring, summer and autumn she resided above the earth with her mother Demeter.
Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, when Hades obtained the permission of Zeus, he took Persephone below to the Underworld without her permission or her mothers: Persephone further ate of the pomegranate seeds and this tied her to the Underworld, Zeus then decreed that for half the year Persephone would dwell in the Underworld with Hades, and the other half with her mother Demeter on the earth.