what is the meaning of the myth(moral)?
2007-01-31 13:54:24 · 6 answers · asked by italian wakesurfer 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The rape of Persephone is the telling of how the seasons came to be.
Short version:
Hades fell in love with Persephone (daughter of Demeter, the goddess of the earth/fertility) and brought her down the Underworld to become his bride.
When Demeter could not find her, she withheld the power of growth (life) from the earth and the world fell into winter.
Persephone was found in the Underworld and, while there, ate seven pomegrante seeds.
Zeus ordered that since she ate seven seeds, she must return to the Underworld for seven months a year.
During that time, Demeter weeps and the earth falls into winter, until Persephone returns to the surface again.
Then, Demeter's joy brings spring and new life back to the earth.
2007-01-31 14:03:31 · answer #1 · answered by Cheyuk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The myth is one of fertility and cycles. The early Greeks believed in the balance of male and female energies to create life. Hades was not just the god of the Underworld but represented the male fertility or potency of the land. The myth recognises that growth in nature needs the cycles to create and bear fruit. Demeter is the ever giving creative force of the feminine and Hades is the masculine, Persephone is the seed. The pomegranate is used to signify the seed once conceived which Hades then has to release back to Demeter to propagate, grow and bear fruit. The seed (Persephone) is then returns to the warmth of the earth until the process happens once more. Hence the cycles of growth and the seasons.
2016-03-28 23:05:27 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just reading the head lines of the different versions of the same story can give you your own opinion to what it means, for everyone has a different interpretation of things and only you can find the meaning for yourself.
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2007-01-31 15:08:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok persephone did something she shouldnt so she had to stay underground half the year, and her mother morned so thats how we got winter, when persephone comes back up then spring happens, its not so much a moral as an explaination of why winter and summer happen,
2007-01-31 18:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The moral of the story is this: if you are ever invited to Hell to dine with anyone residing there, don't eat the food!!!
2007-01-31 14:10:35 · answer #5 · answered by valkyria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't eat food in the underworld nasty side effects...
Oh and don't expect a forced marriage to go well.
2007-01-31 16:31:10 · answer #6 · answered by Fae Noisiv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋