Let's back up. Okay, pretty Pers. was walking around, and BOOM! Hades comes out of a hole, grabs, her, and takes her to his house. On the way, she eats 3 little pomegranate seeds, which are about 1 cm. tall. If you eat food in the UnderWorld, you will stay forever. She thought that it wouldn't count, since they were so small. But it did. Her mama went and complained to Zeus, king of gods, about her daughter being stuck. She swore she would make every year a snowy, non-living land, now known as winter.
But Pers. was allowed to come back every summer, letting every thing grow.
Hades took Persephone to the underworld because of Persephone's beauty.
Persephone is both the goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld.
Persephone is the Goddess of Springtime, and The Queen & Goddess of the Underworld.
Persephone became the Queen of the Underworld.
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.
Persephone leaves the underworld in Spring and she returns in the beginning of Fall.
Persephone ate of the pomegranate in the Underworld and so had to return to the Underworld every year.
Persephone had ate the pomegranate the food of the Underworld.
Persephone ate of the pomegranate in the Underworld, and thus every year must go to the Underworld - then return to Earth.
In the myth of Persephone, the climax is when Persephone is abducted by Hades and taken to the Underworld against her will. This event triggers the conflict between Demeter and Hades, leading to the negotiation for Persephone's return.
Persephone had ate the pomegranate in the Underworld; so had to return to the Underworld a part of every year.
The pomegranate.
Every year when Persephone returns from the Underworld her mother Demeter allows Spring to return to the earth.
Persephone stays in the Underworld for half of the year (six months) and is allowed to return to Olympus for the other half.
She had eaten a pomegranate from the underworld which forced her to return.
Kidnapping, most assume, Persephone did the eating of the food of the underworld part, which stuck her in the Underworld; guaranteeing she could never fully return to the world above: but she had to return thus becoming the goddess of spring.
In Greek myth, it is because of the abduction of Persephone that the Earth/we know the seasons: for Persephone also ate of the pomegranate in the Underworld and every year must return between Earth/Olympus and Underworld.