MYTHOLOGY MEME; PERSEPHONE [1/10 GODS]
In Greek mythology, Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Wife of Hades, Queen of the Underworld and a goddess of vegetation. Formidable, venerable, majestic. The story of her abduction is one you have heard before, of the maiden picking flowers in the meadow abducted by a heartless god. Her mother’s love and sorrow were so great that she forbid the earth to produce. Zeus orders Hades to return her, and he complies. But not before Persephone swallows some pomegranate seeds. The food of the underworld binds one to it, and so Persephone was forever bound to spend half of her months in the world of the living with her mother, the months in which the earth would produce bountifully, and half as Queen of Hades, in which the land would wilt.
