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How did Demeter and Persephone affect the seasons?
Demeter and Persephone were both goddesses of the earth. Gaia (Earth) through her daughter Rhea, who was the mother of Demeter and grandmother of Persephone.
What is the purpose of the myth Demeter and Persephone?
Demeter: to explain the growth of life on Earth. Persephone: to explain the changing seasons every year in Persephone being Queen of the Underworld while the plants die, and goddess of Spring on Earth during her ascension.
Why did the Greeks create the myth of Demeter and Persephone?
To explain the seasons.
What was the solution for Persephone and Demeter?
persephone will spend two of the seasons with her mother and one with hades in the underworld
How can Demeter bring seasons?
Demeter brings about the season of winter in mourning for her daughter Persephone in the underworld, autumn is when Persephone departs, and spring is the return of Persephone. Summer is the harvest season.
Why were the seasons affected by Demeter?
Well in the story of Demeter and Persephone Persephone has to stay in the underworld for 6 months so when Persephone is on earth it is warm and things grow and harvest but when Persephone is in the underworld nothing grows and it is cold
Is Dionysus the reason for the four seasons?
No, the story of Demeter's daughter Persephone is about the seasons among other things.
Who what when where how and why facts about persephone?
Who: Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter What: Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld When: Persephone as the daughter of Demeter was born a goddess of Spring; upon her abduction to the Underworld by Hades, she became his wife and Queen of the Underworld Where: Somewhere in Greece. How: Persephone is goddess of Spring when Hermes and Hecate escort her to Earth from the Underworld, where she is greeted by Demeter and the Seasons: when Persephone returns to the Underworld she goes in Autumn Why: Persephone exists to explain the seasons in a fundamental way.
When was Demeter allowed to see Persephone?
Demeter was allowed to see Persephone during spring and summer witch is why it is warmer during those two seasons. It is warmer because Demeter gets to see her daughter again.
What is the theme of Demeter and Persephone?
Loss and love: the loss of Persephone from the Earth goddess Demeter, the love of Hades for Persephone, the love of Demeter for Persephone.
What fundamental question about life does the myth Demeter and Persephone seek to answer?
the seasons; like when persephone is in the underworld demeter stops doing her job and get sad, this means that harvest is barren and there is nothing but in the spring persephone is comig back to her mother and demeter becomes happy, also in the summer
What seasons were Demeter and her daughter together?
Demeter and her daughter Persephone are often thought to be together Autumn, Summer and Spring. Winter being the season Persephone dwells with her husband Hades in the Underworld.
