Persephone
One day Aphrodite the goddess of Love and Beauty, was sitting on a mountainside playing with her son Eros when she saw Hades ride around with his Black Horses and she told her son, “Show that Black Monarch what it is to feel love.” So Eros shot his sharpest arrow at Hades and it went right through his heart.
Hades has never been in love however now he felt warmth in his veins and he went on till he came into a blossoming valley where the daughter of Demeter the goddess of Harvest was picking flowers. She was Persephone, and as Hades saw her, immediately he fell in love and was never to stop loving her. So with one sweep of his arm he picked her up and rode away with his black horses.
She screamed for her mother, she screamed for help but Hades Horses were too fast. They were out of sight at the River Cayne. Persephone tried to run, she tried to wiggle herself out of Hades strong grip but she was not able to free herself. Then he struck the earth with his trident and the earth swallowed them.
Demeter looked all over the world for Persephone, she was nowhere to be found then she arrived at Sicily at the River Cayne where Hades had taken her to the Underworld, there was a river nymph which had seen the whole happening but she was so scared of Hades that she kept silent. Demeter felt so miserable and angry that she decided not to give the earth any favors anymore she made all crops fail and for one year so many humans died of starvation.
Then one day Zeus said, “This cannot go on, I have to intervene.” He sent all gods and goddesses to plead with Demeter but she had the same answer for all which was: “Not until I see my daughter shall the earth bear fruit again.”
Zeus knew very well where Persephone was but he did not want to take his brothers only joy from him, but he now had to. He told Hermes to go to the Underworld and bid Hades to release his bride again. Hermes went to the underworld, to the Dim Palace of Hades and to where Hades had his thrown, Persephone beside him pale and joyless. When Persephone heard Hermes message she smiled and her face was filled with joy. However she could not leave the underworld anymore because she had sucked sweet pulp from four seeds of a pomegranate. However when she and Hermes arrived at the Temple of Demeter all her bad memories turned into Happy Tellings.
Actually Persephone would not have been allowed to leave the underworld ever again but Zeus had arranged that she stay for four months in every year. It is to this day, that Persephone has to spend those four gloomy months in the underworld and always then Demeter is sad and does not allow any harvest to mankind in that period of the year.
One day Aphrodite the goddess of Love and Beauty, was sitting on a mountainside playing with her son Eros when she saw Hades ride around with his Black Horses and she told her son, “Show that Black Monarch what it is to feel love.” So Eros shot his sharpest arrow at Hades and it went right through his heart.
Hades has never been in love however now he felt warmth in his veins and he went on till he came into a blossoming valley where the daughter of Demeter the goddess of Harvest was picking flowers. She was Persephone, and as Hades saw her, immediately he fell in love and was never to stop loving her. So with one sweep of his arm he picked her up and rode away with his black horses.
She screamed for her mother, she screamed for help but Hades Horses were too fast. They were out of sight at the River Cayne. Persephone tried to run, she tried to wiggle herself out of Hades strong grip but she was not able to free herself. Then he struck the earth with his trident and the earth swallowed them.
Demeter looked all over the world for Persephone, she was nowhere to be found then she arrived at Sicily at the River Cayne where Hades had taken her to the Underworld, there was a river nymph which had seen the whole happening but she was so scared of Hades that she kept silent. Demeter felt so miserable and angry that she decided not to give the earth any favors anymore she made all crops fail and for one year so many humans died of starvation.Then one day Zeus said, “This cannot go on, I have to intervene.” He sent all gods and goddesses to plead with Demeter but she had the same answer for all which was: “Not until I see my daughter shall the earth bear fruit again.”
Zeus knew very well where Persephone was but he did not want to take his brothers only joy from him, but he now had to. He told Hermes to go to the Underworld and bid Hades to release his bride again. Hermes went to the underworld, to the Dim Palace of Hades and to where Hades had his thrown, Persephone beside him pale and joyless. When Persephone heard Hermes message she smiled and her face was filled with joy. However she could not leave the underworld anymore because she had sucked sweet pulp from four seeds of a pomegranate. However when she and Hermes arrived at the Temple of Demeter all her bad memories turned into Happy Tellings.
Actually Persephone would not have been allowed to leave the underworld ever again but Zeus had arranged that she stay for four months in every year. It is to this day, that Persephone has to spend those four gloomy months in the underworld and always then Demeter is sad and does not allow any harvest to mankind in that period of the year.
When Persephone arrives in the underworld she has no expression, she feels cold. She is devastated that Hades is keeping her next to his thrown. However she has no choice she must eat but due to that she is obliged to stay in Hades World.
Hades->Hades falls in love with Persephone.
Demeter-> Demeter is sad and mad so she stops all harvest for the humans.
The three children of Chronus, they all want the sky.
Persephone is sad and scared to go to the underworld with Hades.
This myth explains the four seasons. During summer and winter Demeter is unhappy because Persephone has to live in the Underworld.
Hades->Hades falls in love with Persephone.
Demeter-> Demeter is sad and mad so she stops all harvest for the humans.
The three children of Chronus, they all want the sky.
Persephone is sad and scared to go to the underworld with Hades.
This myth explains the four seasons. During summer and winter Demeter is unhappy because Persephone has to live in the Underworld.
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