She spends it in Hades, the mythological underworld. She is the queen of this underworld, and she is forced to spend 3 months out of the year there as payment for eating the food of the dead, which cannot be consumed by the living. She ate three pomegranate seeds, so she spends 3 months. This is part of the tale of the origin of the seasons.
6 months. She ate 6 pomegranate seeds so each seed equaled a month.
Persephone only spends 6 months in Hades. -Indiriel ________________ In the underworld
The Underworld with Hades, her husband.
Persephone was not punished. She ate the food of the Underworld, so had to spend part of a year therein with her husband Hades.
Demeter had to compromise with allowing Persephone to spend part of the year in the Underworld with Hades because of the agreement struck between Hades and Zeus. This compromise was the result of Persephone eating six pomegranate seeds in the Underworld, which bound her to spend a portion of each year there.
Autumn-Winter
6 months
Persephone only spends 6 months in Hades. -Indiriel ________________ In the underworld
Persephone did return to spend half the year on Earth between her mother, Demeter, and then to the Underworld to be with her husband, Hades.
Persephone spends half of the year in the Underworld, and half of the world 'above'; whether on Mount Olympus, or tending to the earth's natural beauties.
Persephone spends 9 months of the year in the underworld with her husband Hades. This period corresponds to winter when nature appears dormant.
It depends on what time of the year these months are during. Winter and Autumn are associated with the Underworld, while Spring and Summer are associated with Persephone returned to Earth.