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The seasons largely came about as a result of the myth of Persephone, Hades, and Demeter:
Demeter was the goddess of fertility, grain, and agriculture, and her daughter was Persephone, her only child. An innocent, beautiful maiden, she loved to play and run in the fields where her presence caused beautiful flowers to bloom and warm breezes to blow. It's no wonder that Hades, the God of the Underworld, eventually fell in love with her.
Though he was warned by Zeus that such a pairing would be unwise, Hades made a trip to the surface and kidnapped Persephone, intending on keeping her with him in the Underworld and making her his Queen. When Demeter returned to the fields where Persephone had been playing to take her back to Olympus, she couldn't find her. Distraught, she searched every corner of the earth with no success. Her grief and rage was so great at the loss of her daughter that she refused to allow plants to grow, trees to bear fruit, and flowers to bloom, and the earth was plunged into a long, cold, miserable spell that caused great famine.
Gods and goddesses alike attempted to reason with Demeter, but when she finally found out what had happened, despite reassurances that Hades would make a suitable match, Demeter refused to accept it. It got so bad that Zeus was finally forced to relent, promising Demeter he would get her daughter back.
Down in the Underworld, though, things weren't much better. Persephone was miserable, so much so that she had refused to eat anything since she had arrived. But Hades was cunning, and under a guise of pure concern, he persuaded her to eat some pomegranate seeds. What she didn't realize was that anyone who partook of food or drink in the Underworld would be forced to remain there.
When she heard of this, Demeter was furious. Rhea, the mother of the gods, then proposed a compromise: For every pomegranate seed Persephone had eaten, she would stay one month in the Underworld. As she had eaten exactly six, it was reluctantly agreed upon that she would spend half of the year with her mother and half of the year as Hades's queen.
Thus, each year, upon Persephone's disappearance to the Underworld, Demeter's grief returns and summer passes away into winter. When Demeter finally sees her daughter again, her joy is reflected in the melting of the snow and the returning of growth and summer. And so the cycle continues.
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