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What is the connection between Persephone and pomagranets?
Persephone ate of the pomegranate in the Underworld, and thus every year must go to the Underworld - then return to Earth.
What contributions has persephone made to the world?
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.
How does Demeter greet the return of her daughter?
Demeter greets the return of her daughter by bringing spring an summer. When Persephone must return to the underworld, fall and winter begin.
How did Demeter save Persephone?
It isn't really Demeter who saves Persephone, but Zeus. After Persephone is abducted by Hades, Demeter (the goddess of the harvest, and mother of Persephone), begins to neglect her duties. Humans begin to go hungry, so Zeus sends Hermes to the underworld, to talk to Hades. (Hades gives Persephone back, but she has eaten in the underworld and must return for a period each year. This myth explains the winter.)
Did Demeter save Persephone?
It isn't really Demeter who saves Persephone, but Zeus. After Persephone is abducted by Hades, Demeter (the goddess of the harvest, and mother of Persephone), begins to neglect her duties. Humans begin to go hungry, so Zeus sends Hermes to the underworld, to talk to Hades. (Hades gives Persephone back, but she has eaten in the underworld and must return for a period each year. This myth explains the winter.)
Where must Persephone spend part of each year?
Persephone's year is divided between Earth/Olympus and the Underworld.
Brief overview of Hades and Persephone?
Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, a goddess of growing things, and Zeus had promised Hades for Persephone as a wife - he then took the maiden when she was grown, unknowing that neither Persephone or Demeter had not agreed to the marriage promised to him; Persephone became his wife and Queen of the Underworld either by choice or Hades tricking her when she ate of the food of the Underworld. Doing so ensured that she must every year return to the Underworld.
Why did Persephone not return to to the land of the living?
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.
Why could Persephone not return to the world of living?
Because she ate the seed's of a pomegranate (the food of the dead) and Hades said she must stay in the underworld.
What are the consequences of persephone eating the pomegranate seeds?
When Persephone eats the pomegranate seeds in the underworld, she is bound to Hades and must return to him each year, leading to the cyclical nature of the seasons. This act symbolizes the cycle of life and death, as her time in the underworld corresponds with winter, while her return to the surface signifies spring and renewal. The consumption of the seeds also highlights themes of choice, consequence, and the interplay between fertility and desolation in mythology.
What myth is hades associated with?
The most popular is in which Hades asks Zeus for Persephone's hand in marriage and is granted it, while Demeter does not know and when Persephone is taken he offers her the pomegranate to eat in the Underworld. Which she does, thus she can't leave the Underworld save for part of the year. Demeter has been searching for her daughter, and finds out where Persephone is, and demands her return; when Zeus and Hades argue that Persephone must stay in the Underworld for a portion of time; Demeter lets the world feel her wraith in the first winter.
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)
