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She had eaten 6 pomegranate seeds after being kidnapped by Hades and if you eat food in the Land of the Dead, you must remain there. Therefore Persephone must remain in the underworld for 6 months of the year.
Persephone had eaten a pomegranate from the Underworld, the domain of Hades. It hints towards host and guest laws of ancient times and how they may have originally been linked to wives and husbands.
Hades asked his brother Zeus if he could have Persephone for his bride, to this Zeus agreed without consulting Demeter or Persephone - Hades than took her, and Demeter showed her wrath until she got her daughter back, except Persephone had eaten of the pomegranate and had to return to Hades for half the year, this causes Demeter to make the land cold and barren (i.e. winter). Persephone return brings about spring.
Siphyus because he tricked Persephone into letting him go back to "The Land of The Living".
While in Hades she ate six seeds from a pomegranate, condemning her to live in the underworld for six months of the year. Eating in the underworld condemns one to stay there.Because she ate 7 or 8 pomegranate seeds (I think the number varies with each different version of the story)
Queen Persephone and King Hades of the Underworld.
Persephone had ate the pomegranate in the Underworld; so had to return to the Underworld a part of every year.
She had eaten 6 pomegranate seeds after being kidnapped by Hades and if you eat food in the Land of the Dead, you must remain there. Therefore Persephone must remain in the underworld for 6 months of the year.
In the myths, Demeter (Persephone's mother) is the goddess of agriculture. The coming and going of her daughter Persephone from the underworld changes the season. As you can guess, when Persephone came back to earth it was summer while when she was at her husbands (Hades) side up on Earth it was winter.
Persephone had eaten a pomegranate from the Underworld, the domain of Hades. It hints towards host and guest laws of ancient times and how they may have originally been linked to wives and husbands.
Persephone could not return to Earth because she had ate of the food of the Underworld: so below she is Queen, and above she is the goddess of Spring. Because she was the daughter of Demeter who could make all plants grow or die, Zeus the father of Persephone and brother of Hades allowed her return for a part of every year.
Persephone could not return to the land of the living because she had eaten pomegranate seeds in the underworld. This act bound her to spending a portion of each year in the realm of the dead, causing the cycle of seasons as she returned to her mother, Demeter, in the world above for the rest of the year.
Hades asked his brother Zeus if he could have Persephone for his bride, to this Zeus agreed without consulting Demeter or Persephone - Hades than took her, and Demeter showed her wrath until she got her daughter back, except Persephone had eaten of the pomegranate and had to return to Hades for half the year, this causes Demeter to make the land cold and barren (i.e. winter). Persephone return brings about spring.
Siphyus because he tricked Persephone into letting him go back to "The Land of The Living".
According to Greek Mythology, the reason for Spring is the return of the goddess Persephone. She spends the Winter with Hades, which is why the land is barren and cold.
"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot is a poem that uses Persephone as an allusion to represent themes of transformation, loss, and the cycle of life and death. Persephone's story of being abducted to the underworld and her eventual return to the surface serves as a powerful metaphor for the themes explored in the poem.
She couldn't return to the land of the living for six months because she ate six pomegranate seeds in the Underworld.