visual for persephone?

Question

I have a project on persephone daughter of demeter. She's the goddess of spring and queen of the underworld.

I need to make or fine something that represent her.

It CANNOT be a picture.

flowers are too normal...I need something more special than that.

Answer 1

Hi, Persephone is the Queen of the Underworld and the daughter of Demeter. She is also known as Proserpine (Roman), and Kore, which is also transliterated as Core or Cora and translated as the Maid or the Maiden. Her attributes in iconography can include a torch, a crown, a sceptre, and stalks of grain.

You can find her statue presiding over the US Capitol Dome in Washibgton DC is crowned by a statue of Persephone Godess of the Underworld...most people think it is a christian religious motif.
Double clicklink below:

http://www.altavista.com/image/detail?catalog=image&oid=8e7d2085a7f26c00&backurl=%2Fimage%2Fresults%3Fitag%3Dody%26mik%3Dphoto%26mik%3Dgraphic%26mip%3Dall%26mis%3Dall%26miwxh%3Dall%26q%3D%252Bstatue%2B%252BPersephone%2B%252BUSA&q=%2Bstatue+%2BPersephone+%2BUSA

On this site youll find coins, pottery, images, texts for ideas and symbols on Persephones etc:

http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/persephone_i.html

more on Persephone

http://www.altavista.com/image/results?itag=ody&q=%2Bstatue+%2Bpersephone&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

And more Persephone
http://www.altavista.com/image/results?itag=ody&q=%2Bpersephone&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

or on Demeter :
http://www.altavista.com/image/results?itag=ody&q=%2Bstatue+%2Bdemeter&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

http://www.altavista.com/image/results?itag=ody&q=%2BDEMETER&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

You can find more on symbolism of godesses at:

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/nestor/gods.html

Low part of web page with text and links on Chthonic divinities

Hades/Pluton (Pluto or Dis): As brother of Zeus he is an Olympian but does not live in heaven, but the underworld, which he rules. He is also a god of fertility and wealth (from the hidden riches of the earth, such as precious metals and buried treasure).

Iconography: Adult bearded male like Zeus and Posiedon, but rarely depicted except for a single specific mythical scene (the rape of Persephone, with a chariot). Otherwise enthroned, often with his wife Perseophone/Kore.

Attributes: scepter, throne, chariot with horses; in some scenes a rooster or sheaf of wheat (traditional sacrifices) may also be shown.

Terracotta relief of Hades and Persephone enthroned, with wheat, rooster offerings, from Locri (Greek colony in Italy), ca. 480 B.C. (from class)

And also more specific about Persephone and Demeter images and texts:

http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods.html

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Demeter (Ceres): Goddess of grain and agriculture, also a fertility goddess. Shown as a mature "maternal" woman, often with her daughter Persephone/Kore. Attributes/symbols are: a sheaf of grain or head of wheat; a conical headdess called a polos; scepter; torch; sacrificial bowl.

Persephone/Kore when depicted with Demeter is a younger woman, otherwise resembles Demeter.

Demeter gives grain to Triptolemos, Red figure vase, ca.440-430 B.C.

Important site: Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, central Greece (near Athens)

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Answer 2

How about a pomegranate? You can get them at most grocery stores. In the myth, Persephone was kidnapped by Hades and taken to the Underworld. While there she ate 6 pomegranate pips and so had to remain in the underworld for 6 months. While Persephone is in the Underworld her mother, Demeter, feels grief and so we have winter.

Answer 3

How about a collage of a mothers face that is made of made of harvest grain, but she is crying tears of pomegranite (small garnet beads look like pomegranite seeds