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She ate six pomegranate seeds. That is why pomegranates are known as the fruit of the dead.
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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.
In greek mythology who was the goddess of the underworld?
Persephone because she was forced to marry Hades when he gave her a fruit of the underworld because when she ate the fruit it meant hades was her guy because hades gave her something to eat when she couldn't give herself to eat.Since she ate the fruit she has to spend time with hades in the underword in winter.So persephone is queen of the underworld now. hope this helps.
Who ate the pomegranate seeds?
Persephone
Who ate pomegranate seeds?
Persephone
Why was Persephone not allowed to return back to her mother?
Persephone had ate the pomegranate the food of the Underworld.
How does the Persephone connection with pomegranates?
Persephone ate of the pomegranate in the Underworld and so had to return to the Underworld every year.
How does Persephone resemble Eve?
One of the biggest things is that both Persephone and Eve ate fruit off a tree that leads to happiness as well as sadness. Persephone ate 6 pomegranate seeds which allowed her only half freedom from the underworld. Wile Eve at the fruit off of the one tree God told them not to eat from, which lead to the realization of many things but with that God punished both Eve and Adam for disobeying them causing childbirth to be painful. Both girls actions led to effects on the whole world. Persephone made it cold for 6 months and Eve made child birth painfully.
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.)
Why are pomegranates known as the fruit of death?
The pomegranate was considered to be the fruit of the underworld because Hades's wife's mother is the god of the earth,so Hades wife's fruit is the pomegranate
Why Persephone eat pomegranates?
Persephone ate the pomegranates because she was hungry. Had she not been a goddess, she would have starved to death.
What kind of fruit did Persephone eat?
Pomegranate.
Why was Persephone punished?
Persephone was not punished. She ate the food of the Underworld, so had to spend part of a year therein with her husband Hades.
