Where did Persephone the goddess live?
Persephone once lived with her mother, Demeter. However, she was abducted by Hades. After an altercation between Demeter and Hades, it was decided that Persephone would resides with Hades for 3 months of the year. The other months of the year she lives with her mother.
Are there other myths of Persephone?
Yes. Other than her abduction myth, Persephone is in the myth about Orpheus (when he goes to the underworld to get his wife back). She was also in a myth involving Theseus and Pirithrous (being idiot they tried to abduct her right out from under her husbands nose. Hades didn't let that happen . . .) and also the myth about Adonis (the cute little baby whose mother was killed by Aphrodite and was sent to live with Persephone)
Why did Zeus make hades return Persephone?
Because as long as her daughter was kept from her, Demeter,
Persephone's mother and the goddess of fertility, would not let
any plants grow, thus causing humans and animals alike to starve.
What does Persephone torch mean?
The illumination of the way through to Underworld to Earth: the coming of life in spring.
How did hades kidnap Persephone?
The only reason why Hades kidnapped Persephone was because Persephone was a very beautiful women, Hades wanted here for himself. So when Persephone was pick flowers in the meadow she saw a pretty flower so Persephone pulled on the flower it would not budged so she pulled and pulled until it finally gave in and let go. When the flower gave in the ground started to move and out popped Hades in his carriage and kidnapped Persephone
Is Persephone mortal or immortal?
She is immortal, because she is queen of the Underworld, daughter of Demeter and wife to Hades.
Hades and Persephone do not have any children.
Persephone was not punished. She ate the food of the Underworld, so had to spend part of a year therein with her husband Hades.
The spring. It is also said that the bat is her animal.
When did hades take Persephone like the year?
Because it is a story from Greek mythology to explain the existence of seasons, I do not believe there was an actually year when Hades took Persephone.
The myth itself states that Persephone was taken by Hades while away from her mother, Demeter, Goddess of the Grain, and brought down into the underworld to be his bride and his queen. While there Persephone was tricked into eating pomegrante seeds by a boy she had teased while in the world of the living. In most tellings of this myth she ate 6 seeds, but depending on where the myth was told/derived from, the number is different because the lengths of the seasons were different.
Because she ate while in the underworld she had to stay with Hades for the number of months corresponding to the number of seeds she ate. Demeter was extremely saddened by the loss of her daughter and refused to help anything grow or be fruitful during the months when Persephone is in the underworld. However, when Persephone's months in the underworld are over and she returns to spend the remainder of the year with her mother, spring begins and Demeter allows the land to be fertile again.
Why is the white rose a symbol of Persephone?
In today's world we understand the white rose to mean: purity, innocence, silence, secrecy, reverence, humility, youthfulness, "I love you", heavenly.
While a bridal white rose means "Happy Love".
A white rosebud symbolizes girlhood.
Red and white given together mean unity.
Why couldn't Persephone return 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)
What natural phenomenon is explained by the story of Persephone marrying Hades?
According to Legend, Persephone was trapped in the Underworld After Hades had captured her, while there she ate 6 pomagranet seeds. When her mother, Demeter (goddess of the Harvest) was looking for her the earth went cold, rainy, snowy and all around horrible because she wasnt there to regulate it.
When she found her daughter she had tried to take her home, but Hades said that the girl ate fruit therefore had to stay. Zeus, persephone's father dictated that Persephone would marry Hades and live with him for 6 months of the year, During which time Demeter would cry and suffera and the earth would turn cold. This wsa the Greek's explanation of the Seasons.
Who what when where how and why facts about persephone?
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.
What would happen to Persephone if she ate anything in the underworld?
If she ate anything, she would've had to stay in the underworld. This happened when she ate a pomegranate which had three seeds. Therefore, she would have to stay in the underworld for three seasons out of four.
Once she ate the food of the underworld, she would be forced to stay there.
Did Hades like anyone other than Persephone?
No. Out of all the divine (god and goddess) couples, Hades and Persephone are the only couple that never cheated on each other.
What does Persephone represent?
Depending on the theory you operate under, she could represent the vulnerability of women, the idea of a woman being controlled by the men in her life, youth, vitality, fertility, females in that touchy transition period between childhood and womanhood, don't eat in a stranger's home... that's all I can come up with.
What color of hair did Persephone have?
She is sometimes depicted with either Blonde/White, Red, or Black hair.
What did goddess Persephone do?
She was abducted from her mother by Hades. She longed to return from the underworld. When she was about to leave she was offered and ate a pomegranate (or some pomegranate seeds). This meant that the underworld was her home, so she could not return. In the end a compromise was reached, where she stayed half the year in the underworld and half the year with her mother.
Persophone is the maiden of the spring and was the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture. After Hades kidnapped her and took her to the underworld, she became the queen of the underworld.