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It is Persephone, Demeter's daughter, who spends half of the year in Hades and half of the year with her mother. According to Greek mythology, Persephone (pronounced per-seff-oh-nee) is abducted and carried off to the underworld by the god of the underworld, Hades. While there, she eats pomegranate seeds, which bind her to remain with Hades for at least part of the year. In the spring and summer, when everything is new and blossoming, Demeter is expressing joy that her daughter is returned to her. In the fall and winter, when things die or go dormant, Demeter is grieving that she must be departed from her daughter.
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if earth was not spinning there would be no?
Diurnal cycle
Where does Persephone spend the other months of the year?
Some believe that Persephone spent 9 months (Some believe 6 months) of the year living in the underworld with her husband, Hades, and the rest of the year with her mother, Demeter, in Olympus.There is some question about the amount of time she spent in Hades. As Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 ("Persephone") expressed it, 'So it was arranged that she should spend two-thirds (according to later authors, one-half) of every year with her mother and the heavenly gods, and should pass the rest of the year with Hades beneath the earth."But some people say she would go to her lover.
What was Demeter's relationship with other gods?
She disliked Hades Demeter had a daughter with her brother Zeus (eww lol) Her daughters name was Persephone and Demeter loved her very much. One day the earth opened up and Hades, god of the underworld reached up and kidnapped Persephone. Demeter wondered around often looking for her, with no luck until one day a god that sees all told her what happened. Demeter asked Zeus, a brother of Hades, to return Persephone. When Zeus refused, Demeter withheld the harvest from man until Zeus relented. He agreed to allow Persephone's return if she had not eaten while with Hades. However, since Persephone had eaten 6 pomegranate seeds in the underworld, Zeus determined that she would spend 6 months with her mother and 6 months with Hades. This is the mythic origin of the six months of spring and summer when Persephone walks the earth with her mother and the 6 months of fall and winter when Persephone must return to the underworld. The pomegranate is still for many a potent symbol of death and renewal. The Elysian Mysteries were public celebrations of the myth of Demeter and Persephone
What was some of minor god Persephone's uniqueness?
She was the Greek's explanation for seasons. She was taken by Hades to his realm of the underworld, and Hades tried enticing her to become his wife. However, her mother, Demeter, asked Zeus to intervene. Zeus agreed to command Hades to return Persephone; on the condition that she had eaten nothing of the Underworld. Demeter received her daughter back, only to find that Persephone had eaten Pomogranite seeds in the Underworld. Zeus negotiated a compromise between Hades and Demeter. Persephone was to become Hades' wife, but she was allowed a half of the year with her mother, Demeter. So, she was to spend 6 months in the Underworld and 6 months on the surface of the earth. The seasons thing comes in at this point. Demeter becomes lonely and sad when at her daughter's annual leave and causes the natural world to lie dormant. Fall and Winter. When Persephone returns, Demeter rejoices and the plant begin to grow again. Spring and Summer. In the Underworld, Persephone was thought to influence Hades' judgement of the dead.
Where does Persephone spend months a year?
Persephone only spends 6 months in Hades. -Indiriel ________________ In the underworld
Who is the youngest daughter of Demeter?
Demeter only has one child and that is Persephone
How many children did Demeter?
demeter has only one child persephone
What is the Greek goddess of the harvest called?
Demeter was the goddess of the harvest and was mother of Persephone whom was trapped in the underworld. Demeter lets no food grow in the winter as she is in misery because persephone returns to the underworld for 3 months every year. Persephone was daughter of not only Demeter but Zeus, the god of all gods!
Hades Demeter and perspehone and involved in the myth of?
Where Persephone was kidnapped by Hades and then Demeter went looking for her and when she found her daughter, demanded her return only to find that Persephone had then eaten of the food of the Underworld, she was then made to spend half the year with her mother and half with Hades as his wife.
Where does Persephone spend 9 months a year?
Persephone only spends 6 months in Hades. -Indiriel ________________ In the underworld
Why was Persephone Demeter's favorite daughter?
Because Persephone was Demeter's only daughter
Where 6 months day 6 months night?
Only at the Earth's north and south poles.
Are months longer on Jupiter or Earth?
Months are longer on Earth than they are on Jupiter, because Jupiter's days are only 10 hours long.
