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Persephone (Proserpina)
In Greek mythology, Persephone was the queen of the Underworld. Her Roman equivalent was Proserpina. She was a goddess of vegetation.
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What is Persephone the protector of?
Persephone was queen of the underworld, the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. She was a protector of those who believed in the Mysteries and in her domain of the Underworld she ensured passage to Elysium - also a goddess of ghosts and necromancy, she made certain that if the dead were wronged that the Erinyes who answered to her would curse the living who had slighted the dead.
Did Persephone like Cerberus the 3 headed dog?
There is no myth to say Persephone did not like Cerberus; certainly the only myth that relates to it is the one in which a task of Heracles makes him go into the Underworld to ask for Cerberus, which he is let to do - if he later beings him back.
What things did Persephone dislike?
In connection to the myth where she is kidnapped by Hades - which is not always the case in the mythology - as a goddess of the grain she is said to not like the Underworld she rules as queen and holds a court within.
Who are Persephone's siblings?
Persephone had no sister, but it is believed that her brother was Plutus, and is widely unknown. Their father was Zeus, and their mother was Demeter.
Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter and thus has lots of half-siblings.
What did the goddess Persephone?
The daughter of Zeus and Demeter, who was abducted by Hades and forced to be his wife. She ate 6 pomegranate seeds, so 6 months ever year she is in the Underworld, and the other half with her mother.
What happens when persephone goes to the underworld to stay with hades?
In many myths, Hades (the god of the underworld ) loved Persephone. He had so much love for her that he started an earthquake and carried her off into the cold, cruel underworld. Persephone was forced to marry Hades and there on forward she could only visit her mother in summer or spring.
What objects were associated with Persephone?
Persephone is associated with Pomegranates. I'm not sure about the rest though.
I think she eats pretty much whatever she feels like at the time. I doubt she has a discrimination between one or the other.
Why is Persephone's sacred animal a bat?
One Persephone's many symbols is the bat because she was abducted by Hades (king of the underworld) as a young innocent maiden and became his consort and err go Queen of the underworld. The bat symbolizes her ascension from light to dark/day to night/purity to corruption as well as her entrapment within a world of darkness Hades brought her into .. etc..... You get the point. =^.^=
What is the physical description of Persephone?
Persephone was usually depicted as a young goddess holding sheaf of grain and a flaming torch. Sometimes she was shown in the company of her mother Demeter, and the hero Triptolemos, the teacher of agriculture. At other times she appears enthroned beside Hades.
What was the life of Persephone?
Persephone is the Goddess of Spring, as well as Goddess of the Underworld.
She is known for being kidnapped by Hades, the God of the Underworld.
Her mother, Demeter mourned her departure by refusing to let crops grow--essentially the creation of winter. Persephone returns every Spring, but is cursed to return to the Underworld once every year.
she has no kids because she was unable to have kids.
What are some weaknesse of Persephone?
beauty so ravishing it attracted hades the god of the underworld
What is the symbol of Persephone?
a torch, pomegranate's, reeds, the Spring, bats, the narcissus, the poppy, the white rose, young grain, flowers, mint, poplars, aconite, and pomegranate seeds.
a torch, pomegranate's, reeds, the Spring, bats, the narcissus, the poppy, the white rose, young grain, flowers, mint, poplars, aconite, and pomegranate seeds.
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Where does she spend the other 3 months?
spent her life underworld
Actually Persophone spends 4 months in the underworld, due to her eating the pomegranate seeds and the rest with her mother Demeter.
What type of flower did Persephone see when she went over to pick it?
It isn't told for certain;
"(Persephone and others) gathering flowers over a soft meadow, roses and crocuses and beautiful violets, irises also and hyacinths and the narcissus, which Gaia made to grow at the will of Zeus and to please Polydektor (the Host of Many), to be a snare for the bloom-like girl - a marvellous, radiant flower. It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see: from its root grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly, so that all wide heaven (ouranos) above and the whole earth (gaia) and the sea's (thalassa's) salt swell laughed for joy. And the girl was amazed and reached out with both hands to take the lovely toy: but the wide-pathed earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa, and the lord, Polydegmon (Host of Many), with his immortal horses sprang out upon her--the Son of Kronos, Polynomos (He who has many names)."
What kind of seeds did hades give Persephone?
Pomegranate seeds, the food of the underworld, and, having eaten even one seed, Persephone had to stay in the underworld for (depending on the story) three (or six) months every year.
Where did Persephone live for six months?
She lived with Hades (Pluto) in the Underworld as his wife. He captured her and took her there. When she was found, Zeus ordered her to be let go and brought back. As she was leaving Hades made her eat a pomegranate seed which would somehow make her have to stay with him for 4 months (I believe) out of every year.
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.
Why are pomegranates known as the fruit of death?
The pomegranate was considered to be the fruit of the underworld because Hades's wife's mother is the god of the earth,so Hades wife's fruit is the pomegranate
What is the fruit Persephone ate?
She ate six pomegranate seeds. That is why pomegranates are known as the fruit of the dead.
What did Persephone eat to that was bad for her?
Persephone at six pomegranate seeds which is why they're known as the fruit of death. It wasn't technically "bad" for her. It just trapped her in the Underworld for 6 months a year, which I guess could be bad depending on your perspective.
Who was Persephone and why did she eat the pomegranate?
Persephone was the daughter of the goddess, Demeter, and the god, Zeus. She was abducted by Hades, god of the Underworld, as he wanted to make her Queen of the Underworld.
During her time in the Underworld, she was tricked by Hades and ate four pomegranate seeds. After she returned home, under the agreement between Zeus and Hades, she was forced to return to the Underworld four months out of the year.
What would happen to presephone if she ate someting in the underworld?
The ancieant myth about Persephone and Hades states that any living thing that eats food from the underworld must remain there for all time. Perssphone did eat six pomigranet seeds however, and therefore must spend six months of every year in the underworld. This myth was used by the Greeks and Romans to explain winter (Persephone was the goddess of spring and growing things)
