Zeus, Persephone's father.
Zeus, Persephone's father.
Hades abducts Demeter's daughter, Persephone.
One myth recounts the story of Demeter's daughter, Persephone, whose beauty had so empassioned Hades, the God of the Underworld, that he tore open the face of the earth, and rode his horses up through the chasm to snatch Persephone away and take her to the Underworld to be his wife and queen. Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, was so despondent at losing her daughter that the earth froze over, and he crops withered and died. Zeus, realizing that the earth could not survive if this were to continue, demanded Hades return Persephone to her mother. However, once a soul has consumed food while in the Underworld, their return to the earth is impossible. Hades, prior to surrendering Persephone, had tricked her into eating a number of pomegranate seeds. As a compromise, Persephone, although permitted to return to the surface and be reunited with her mother for the balance of the year, was required to sit as Goddess of the Underworld one month for every pomegranate seed she had consumed while with Hades. During Persephone's tenure in the Underworld, her mother, Demeter, languishes, causing the earth to experience its winter. Upon Persephone's return every year, Demeter's joy causes the earth to experience its spring and summer seasons.
Because if you have no money to pay the ferryman, Charon, he will not row you across the river Styx and you will have to wander the shores of the river for one hundred years. This is also true for people whose bodies are left unburied.
Proserpina (sometimes spelt Proserpine,Prosperine or Prosperina) is an ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of Springtime. Her Greek goddess' equivalent is Persephone. The probable origin of her name comes from the Latin, "proserpere" or "to emerge," in respect to the growing of grain. Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life-death-rebirth deity.She was the daughter of Ceres, goddess of agriculture and crops and Jupiter, the god of sky and thunder.
Zeus, Persephone's father.
Hades abducts Demeter's daughter, Persephone.
Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, was kidnapped by Hades, the god of the underworld, in Greek mythology. This event led to the creation of the seasons as a result of Demeter's grief and influence.
Persephone may have sympathy for the living heroes and the dead whose family have not given them proper funeral rights: she is also a goddess of justice and those who wrong the living and dead are plagued by the Furies which she and Hades command.
One myth recounts the story of Demeter's daughter, Persephone, whose beauty had so empassioned Hades, the God of the Underworld, that he tore open the face of the earth, and rode his horses up through the chasm to snatch Persephone away and take her to the Underworld to be his wife and queen. Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, was so despondent at losing her daughter that the earth froze over, and he crops withered and died. Zeus, realizing that the earth could not survive if this were to continue, demanded Hades return Persephone to her mother. However, once a soul has consumed food while in the Underworld, their return to the earth is impossible. Hades, prior to surrendering Persephone, had tricked her into eating a number of pomegranate seeds. As a compromise, Persephone, although permitted to return to the surface and be reunited with her mother for the balance of the year, was required to sit as Goddess of the Underworld one month for every pomegranate seed she had consumed while with Hades. During Persephone's tenure in the Underworld, her mother, Demeter, languishes, causing the earth to experience its winter. Upon Persephone's return every year, Demeter's joy causes the earth to experience its spring and summer seasons.
Yes. Other than her abduction myth, Persephone is in the myth about Orpheus (when he goes to the underworld to get his wife back). She was also in a myth involving Theseus and Pirithrous (being idiot they tried to abduct her right out from under her husbands nose. Hades didn't let that happen . . .) and also the myth about Adonis (the cute little baby whose mother was killed by Aphrodite and was sent to live with Persephone)
Demeter's daughters are; Persephone, by Zeus. Despoena, by Poseidon. Khrysothemis of Krete, whose father is Karmanor.
Hades, Lord of the Dead
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makura the monkey deva he wants to kidnap calumon
Hades, god of the underworld
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