Very happy to be with her mother and see the earth fruitful.
Melione is the daughter of Persephone and Zeus/Hades, presided over the propitiations offered to the ghosts of the dead. She wandered the earth at night with a retinue of ghosts, striking fear into the hearts of mankind. She is then further filling a function of her mother, Persephone.
Spring (Persephone returns, Demeter allows the Earth to give life) Winter (Persephone as Queen of Underworld/Dead, Demeter mourning) Death (Persephone/Demeter - separating decent) Life (Persephone/Demeter - on Earth)
Persephone was abducted by Hades and taken to the underworld, causing her mother Demeter great distress. Demeter's grief led her to neglect her duties as the goddess of agriculture, resulting in a barren earth.
Yes, Persephone is associated with the city of Eleusis in Greek mythology, where she was abducted by Hades and later became Queen of the Underworld. The Eleusinian Mysteries, celebrated in Eleusis, were centered around Persephone's story and her role as a symbol of death and rebirth.
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.
Persephone lives both with the living and in the Underworld.
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Persephone was born in a meadow on Earth
Persephone is a mythological figure. There is no evidence that she lived at all. The seasons are created by the elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun, but the ancient Greeks did not know that, so the legend of Persephone was created to explain the changing of the seasons. but according to greek mythology, she lived during the four winter months with her husban hades in the underworld and the remaining months with her mother
Persephone is a Goddess of the Earth, and the Goddess of the Underworld.
Demeter and Persephone were both goddesses of the earth. Gaia (Earth) through her daughter Rhea, who was the mother of Demeter and grandmother of Persephone.
On Earth and Olympus, Persephone is the Goddess of Spring.
Persephone's return to the Earth and Demeter marked the beginning of the first spring.
Both Demeter and her daughter Persephone were goddesses of the earth and growing things.
She lived part of the year in the underworld with her husband Hades.
With Persephone's myth, the Earth/we know the seasons of spring, summer (when Persephone returns to the Earth, reigning with Demeter Queen of the Harvest/Earth) during autumn Persephone departs and dwells in the Underworld with Hades as Queen of the Underworld. We already know these things, but this is how the ancient Greeks explained the seasons.
Persephone missed both her mother and the life she'd known on earth .