Anything about Persephone?

Question

I need something other than how Hades abducted her. Whats her symbol? Are there any different facts about her other than the season story. Please tell me what you know about her. Also if you find a good picture of Persephone without nudity, please link the site. Thank you.

I also would like to know whether its 6 pomegranate seeds or 3. And why Hades abducted her.

Answer 1

I understood that it was four seeds that she ate and because of that, she had to spend four months of the year with Hades; those four seeds represent the winter season (winter weather usually begins to assert itself in mid-November, and tapers out usually in early/mid-March).

As for the 'kidnapping', there's two stories on that. One story says that Hades saw Persephone, wanted her because of her beauty and kidnapped her to the underworld, where he slept with her and made her his bride - which SERIOUSLY ticked off Demeter, her mother. The other version I've heard is that Hades and Persephone were secret lovers, and Demeter only assumed that she had been kidnapped; in this version, Hades allowed Persephone to eat the seeds so that she would be compelled by divine law to return for those four months, regardless of Demeter's feelings about their relationship.

Answer 2

Image searched "persephone symbol", and this is the first link I found. Most of the others look like it

http://astroqueer.tripod.com/persephone/pers.jpg

Sort of like a sprouting flower.

As far as pictures go, would it really help? She didn't have any trademark equipment like the Aegis or anything. Any picture of a stunning Greek woman would suffice. It's not like anyone took a Polaroid of her.

In some versions, she ate the whole pomegranate, but wasn't bound to Hades year-round simply because she was a God. Usually, though, it's 3, 4, or 7 seeds.

Edit:

Here's a statue of Persephone and Demeter

http://www.hellados.ru/img/pic/demeter_persephone_statue.jpg

Answer 3

Okay Hades apducted her because he thought she was so beautiful; he decided he wanted her, that's why. And it is six pomegranate seeds.
Okay her mother is Demeter, mother of all plants! One day she was abducted by Hades, and he tried to make her his queen, but she spoke to none and ate nothing in all the time she was there. Demeter pleaded with Zues to let Persophone, her beloved daughter, come back, and he tried. Before she left, Hades made her eat six pomegranate seeds. Because she ate the seeds, she had to stay with Hades half the year; Demeter grieved, and the plants withered, giving birth to winter.
And the rest of the year, she was with Demeter, and Demeter was very happy to be with her daughter, which is why there is spring and summer.
When Persophone is with Hades, it is fall and winter; the rest is spring and summer.
This is just one story. Hope this helps =)

Answer 4

I don't know if she had a symbol. Rossetti did a very nice painting of her, fully clothed. The pomegranite seeds vary from translation to translation. He abducted her because she was so beautiful.

I've always thought that the movie "Legend" with Tom Cruise had a slight Hades/Persephone undertone. There is one scene where the Darkness character tries to ply the Lilly character with food and I thought maybe that if she ate it, she would be forced to stay with him.

Answer 5

Persephones and her brothers were seen playing round a huge night-black ox (Buffalo) garlanding him with flowers. She is often portrayed in a little white dress with flowers in her hair, riding on the beasts back.

He simply went on walking with her, down to his Kingdom. Hades chose her for her beauty, which is why - at the same time every year, when Persephone's mother comes to fetch her, her shiny blond hair and beautiful skin bring into the world the knowledge of Spring! (Demeter/Ceres is the mother of Persephone, and is the person to beg for her to be allowed home 6 months of the year)

Answer 6

Persephone- Greek Godess,the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.She was carried off to the Underworld as the bride of Pluto,who later agreed that she should spend 6 months of the year with her mother.The Myth symbolises the growth and decay of vegetation and the changing seasons.

Answer 7

Hades abducted Persophone because he was in love wiht her. Her time in the underworld is a symbol of winter, because her mother is grieving her loss, when she returns it is spring to signify her joy of having her daughter back

Answer 8

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Answer 9

pomegrantes would be her symbol!!!

Answer 10

Here is some information for you to use to find the answers to your questions,Everything you need is here.
Persephone, Greek Goddessof Innocence and Receptivity and Queen of the Underworld
Persephone, a Greek goddess known in her childhood by the name Kore (or Cora, meaning young maiden), was the only child of the union of Demeter (goddess of the bountiful harvest) and Zeus, the mighty king of the Olympians. The Greek goddess Persephone was born when Demeter was Zeus' consort, long before his marriage to the goddess Hera. By all accounts Persephone had an idyllic childhood, raised by her nurturing mother and played with her father's other daughters, the Greek goddesses Athena and Aphrodite. Always a cheerful and compliant child, the little goddess Persephone was a parent's dream. According to Greek mythology Persephone's life was soon to change. As signs of womanly beauty began to shine along side her childlike innocence, the adolescent goddess Persephone unwittingly attracted the attention of the Greek god Hades, brother of Zeus and ruler of the underworld. One can hardly blame Hades because the underworld, in Greek mythology, was the realm of the sleeping and the dead. It probably needed some "brightening up", and the young goddess Persephone's radiance would assuredly liven up the place.
The god Hades, however, did not bother to woo the young Persephone, traditional goddess protocol notwithstanding. After asking for (and receiving) her father's approval for Persephone's hand in marriage, Hades simply abducted her one bright sunny day when she stooped to pluck a narcissus from a field of wildflowers near her home. The meadow was suddenly rent open, and Hades simply reached out and snatched Persephone away, taking her to his underworld kingdom and making her his queen. Although the young goddess Persephone grew to love Hades, she remained lonely for her mother and the life she'd known on earth. Her mother, the goddess Demeter, had heard Persephone's screams when Hades grabbed her. She began an intensive search for Persephone. After learning how Zeus had betrayed their daughter, and consumed by grief and sorrow, Demeter demonstrated her outrage by withholding her blessing from the earth until Persephone was returned to her. Droughts ensued, and the earth lay barren. Mankind was facing a major famine. Zeus finally relented and sent the god Hermes to bring the young goddess Persephone back to her mother.
Part of Persephone missed her mother horribly, but another part had grown rather fond of the god Hades. And Persephone was rather enjoying her role as Queen, even if it was in the underworld. While preparing to return to the earth with Hermes, Persephone accepted a pomegranate offered to her by Hades. She knew full well that anyone who had eaten while in the underworld would not be allowed to return, even a goddess -- Persephone went ahead and ate seven of the seeds. Her choice prevented her from ever being fully restored to Demeter, but did open up the possibility of a compromise. Hermes was able to negotiate an agreement on her behalf between Hades, a god who was usually rather cold-natured and self-centered, and Demeter. Persephone would be allowed to stay with Hades in the underworld for four months each year (winter) and would return to the earth and her mother the remaining months. The goddess Persephone was soon reunited joyfully with her mother. Each year as Persephone left to join her husband in the underworld, Greek mythology tells us that the goddess Demeter would begin to grieve, bringing on the cold, barren winters. But a few months later Persephone, the goddess associated with awakening, would return to bring spring and its verdant growth in her wake . . . thus were the seasons established.
Not that the goddess Persephone sloughed off any of her responsibilities as the Queen of the Underworld . Apparently Persephone didn't spend all her time "going home to momma". Having made the decision to consume the seeds of the pomegranate while in the underworld, Persephone managed to somehow always be there when others came visiting, ready to receive them into the underworld and to serve as their hostess and guide.
The goddess Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, was willing to help Psyche pass Aphrodite's tests so that Psyche could be reunited with her beloved husband. Psyche had been assigned to go to the underworld and return with some of Persephone's famous youth serum/beauty ointment (actually it was a sleeping potion, but hey, we all know what a bad night's sleep can do to our appearance!) While Psyche was in the underworld, she found Persephone to be both a gracious and generous hostess.
The Greek goddess Persephone also helped Heracles (Hercules), loaning him Cerberus, the ferocious three-headed dog that guarded the entrance of the underworld, so that he could complete the Twelve Labors he'd been assigned to make retribution for the death of his wife. The goddess Persephone was also at home in the underworld when Odysseus (Ulysses) arrived. She rewarded him with a legendary tour of the souls of women.
In another intriguing story, the Greek goddess Persephone agreed to hide Adonis, a mortal youth who was Aphrodite's lover, from Aphrodite's suspicious husband. But upon seeing the beautiful Adonis, Persephone, receptive goddess that she was, also fell for his charms and refused to give him back to Aphrodite. (Remember, these Greek goddesses were the original "wild women", refusing to yield to convention!)

Eventually, Zeus had to step in to settle the argument. He ruled that Adonis should spend a third of the year with each of the goddesses, Persephone and Aphrodite, and be left to his own pursuits the remainder of the year. Unfortunately, Adonis chose to spend his free time hunting and was killed in a hunting accident a few years later
The Greek goddess Persephone represents both the youthful, innocent, and joyous maiden aspect of a woman as well as the more womanly self who, innocence lost and family attachments loosened, can begin to consciously decide for herself.

In Greek mythology Persephone, goddess of the soul, is the possessor of its dark and frightening wisdom. But the goddess Persephone is also the harbinger of spring . . . and a reminder of all the growth and hope that it brings.

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The Romans called her Proserpine.

Her names means something like "she who destroys the light."
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* The Wife of Hades
* Persephone in The Iliad (reference)
* Persephone in The Odyssey (reference)
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The Wife of Hades

The beautiful daughter of Demeter and Zeus, Persephone is the focus of the story resulting in the division of the seasons, giving us the sweetness of Spring and the bitterness of Winter. Hades did not woo the beautiful Persephone, he abducted her and took her to his underground kingdom. After much protest, Persephone came to love the cold blooded king of the underworld but her mother, Demeter, was consumed with rage and sorrow. She demonstrated her anger by punishing the earth’s inhabitants with bitter cold and blustering winds. Unless Persephone was returned to her mother’s side, the earth would perish.

Hermes was sent to the house of Hades by Zeus to reason with Hades. He entered the kingdom of Hades and negotiated a compromise between the (usually cold and selfish) Hades and the (usually loving and caring) Demeter. Before Persephone could leave the underworld, Hades gave her a pomegranate seed to eat. By doing this he bound her to himself and his kingdom. When Demeter found out about the trickery she was angry but she was also resigned that there was nothing she could do... her loving daughter was bound to the Lord of the Dead. With no alternative, it was agreed that Persephone would to spend part of the year with her husband, Hades, and part of the year in the sunlight with her mother, Demeter.

When Persephone is with Hades the earth is wracked by the sorrow of her mother. But, when Persephone returns from the underworld to walk the earth again, Demeter pours forth the blessings of Spring to welcome her beloved daughter home.

She is often confused with the Roman goddess, Proserpina.

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Persephone in The Iliad (listed by book and line)

* 09.457 ...When Phoinix’s (Phoenix) father learned that his son had seduced his mistress, he called down curses on his son and named the Furies, Zeus of the Underworld, i.e. Hades, and Persephone
* 09.569 ...Phoinix (Phoenix) tells Akhilleus (Achilles) about the stubbornness of Meleagros (Meleager) and how Meleagros’ mother had prayed to Hades and Persephone for the death of her own son

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Persephone in The Odyssey (listed by book and line)

* 10.491 ...Kirke (Circe) tells Odysseus that he must go to the house of Hades and Persephone and seek out the ghost of the dead prophet, Teiresias
* 10.494 ...Persephone had granted intelligence, even after death, only to the prophet Teiresias
* 10.509 ...When giving Odysseus instructions on how to find the entrance to the Underworld, Kirke (Circe) told him to look for the Groves of Persephone with willows and poplars growing near the shore of Okeanos (Oceanus)
* 10.534 ...Kirke (Circe) tells Odysseus that when he reaches the abode of Hades and Persephone he must not let the dead drink the sacrificial blood until he has questioned them
* 10.564 ...Odysseus tells his men that they must go to the house of Hades and Persephone
* 11.047 ...After making an animal sacrifice at the entrance to the Underworld, Odysseus prays to Hades and Persephone
* 11.213 ...While at the entrance to the Underworld, Odysseus asks the ghost of his mother, Antikleia (Anticleia), if proud Persephone has created her as an illusion to increase his sorrow
* 11.217 ...While at the entrance to the Underworld, the ghost of Odysseus’ mother, Antikleia (Anticleia), explains that he cannot hold her in his arms because all who die become insubstantial and that Persephone is not to blame for her condition
* 11.226 ...While at the entrance to the Underworld, Odysseus encountered the ghosts of many dead women sent to him by proud Persephone
* 11.385 ...While at the entrance to the Underworld, Odysseus saw the ghosts of the women depart, scattered by Persephone
* 11.634 ...Odysseus feels genuine fear before he finally leaves the Underworld; he fears that Persephone will send the head of the Gorgon from the house of Hades to attack him
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Symbols~ http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/goddess_symbols_Persephone.htm

Image~ Return of Persphone
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