![]() ![]() When Demeter and Persephone are together, the Earth flourishes with vegetation in Demeter's happiness. In order to calm both Demeter and Hades, Zeus ordered Persephone to return to the Underworld for six months each year. Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, a servant of Hades tricked Persephone into eating six pomegranate seeds. However, it was a rule of the Fates that whoever consumed food or drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there. ![]() Pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who heard their anguish, Zeus finally forced Hades to return Persephone to her mother. Hades was determined to make Persephone love him and gave her many gifts and riches. She hated him for snatching her away from her mother until he asked the dead gardeners of the Underworld to make a field of her favorite plants. Angered and heartbroken, Demeter stopped caring for the Earth, so the land didn't flourish anymore and people began to starve and die. Hecate, goddess of magic, told Demeter she had heard Persephone scream when she was being kidnapped. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter searched everywhere for her lost daughter. One day, Persephone was picking flowers with some of her nymphs in a field in Enna when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. He asked for help from Zeus, despite his estrangement with his brother. One day, he spotted her in the fields and became entranced by her beauty. Persephone's uncle, Hades, was very lonely and wanted a wife. Despite this, she said that Persephone could have married the god of doctors. When she reached marriageable age, several gods tried to woo Persephone, but Demeter, who suffered many horrible courtships, rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of other deities. She mostly passed her days planting seeds and nurturing the flora. As she wasn't one of her father's favorite children, she had no position at Olympus and used to live far away with her mother's closest nymphs. Persephone was born to Zeus, king of the gods, and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. ![]()
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