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She goes around searching for her Daughter Persephone.
Persephone is often robed, holding sheafs of grain and a flaming torch. A flower that shows her as Queen of the Underworld is asphodel. Being a Queen, she had no need of a weapon.
Persephone is a Goddess, she is female. She is often depicted holding a flaming torch and grains of wheat.
The illumination of the way through to Underworld to Earth: the coming of life in spring.
a symbol of enlight meant
Grain, pomaganate, and torch
Most illustrations of Persephone show her holding a torch.
Persephone is a Greek goddess associated with springtime, vegetation, and the cycle of life and death. She is often depicted as a symbol of transformation and renewal, transitioning between the underworld with Hades during the winter months and returning to the surface world in the spring, bringing with her the blooming of flowers and growth of crops. Persephone's story represents the changing seasons and the balance between life and death.
Persephone's symbol in Greek Mythology is the pomegranate. It represents the fruit she consumed in the Underworld, which tied her to Hades and resulted in her spending part of the year in the underworld, leading to the changing seasons.
The torch is not really one of her symbol's. The hearth is her main symbol. It represents her control of domestic life.
Persephone was usually depicted as a young goddess holding sheafs of grain and a flaming torch.
Both the pomograntet and the asphodel have been associated with Persephone as her symbols.