What are some fun facts about Greek goddess Persephone?

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Answer 1

Persephone or Proserpine, in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, goddess of fertility and queen of the underworld. She was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. When she was still a beautiful maiden, Pluto seized her and held her captive in his underworld. Though Demeter eventually persuaded the gods to let her daughter return to her, Persephone was required to remain in the underworld for four months because Pluto had tricked her into eating a pomegranate (food of the dead) there. When Persephone left the earth, the flowers withered and the grain died, but when she returned, life blossomed anew. This story, which symbolizes the annual vegetation cycle, was celebrated in the Eleusinian Mysteries, in which Persephone appeared under the name Kore.



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Answer 2

Greek Goddess Of Fun

Answer 3

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter.
Demeter was the sister of Zeus, he was enamored with her, but she rejected his advances.
In order to have his desire, Zeus transformed himself into a Bull and raped Demeter. The result was a child called Kore or later Persephone.
Demeter was celebrated as a Goddess of the Earth, in the maternal vein of Mother Nature.
When Persephone was a young woman, Hades, the God of the Underworld, took a fancy to her and abducted down into the earth. His brother, Zeus, helped him in this task.
Demeter in her grief neglected the land whilst she searched the world for her daughter. When she found out what the brothers had done she was enraged and went into hiding.

There any many tales of Demeter and of Persephone in the time of their separation.
Eventually Hades and Zeus have to agree to let Persephone return to her mother. But during her entrapment she has eaten the forbidden pomegranate. So she has to return to the underworld for one third of the year.
This is when the seasons change and the winter ensues. Every spring she would return in her guise as a fertility Goddess.

She is remarried symbolically to the God Hades in the rituals were the maiden is impregnated by the wild aspect of nature to enrich the organic cycle of the season. Every spring she arises and gives birth again.

Persephone also becomes a queen of the underworld and is later seen as a keeper of lost souls.

Answer 4

Interesting Fact: Persephone is also sometimes known just as Kore, or the Maiden. She was sometimes called "the maiden of the beautiful ankles". While most sources indicate Persephone was not happy to be "married" by Hades, others assert that she ate the pomegranate seed (or seeds) deliberately, as a way of breaking free from Mom, and that she was actually content with the final arrangement.

Answer 5

In Wicca we have a ritual that is a part of the greater Fall Equinox ritual of Mabon devoted to Persephone. Persephone ate three pomegranite seeds and so, had to remain in Hades. We have a ritual involving pomegranite seeds in her honor. Blessed Be

Answer 6

She is the Queen of the Underworld and wife to Hades.
She is the daughter of Demeter and Zeus.
The Romans knew her as Proserpina.
She spends half her time in the underworld which causes her mother, Demeter, to grieve which results in the winter months. When she is reunited with her mother then everything blooms. This has to do with Hades tricking her by offering pomegranate seeds.

Answer 7

She was known as a terrible Queen of the dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was named simply "The Maiden".
As she was gathering flowers with her playmates in a meadow, the earth opened and Pluto, god of the dead, appeared and carried her off to be his queen in the world below. ... Torch in hand, her sorrowing mother sought her through the wide world, and finding her not she forbade the earth to put forth its increase. So all that year not a blade of corn grew on the earth, and men would have died of hunger if Zeus had not persuaded Pluto to let Proserpine go. But before he let her go Pluto made her eat the seed of a pomegranate, and thus she could not stay away from him for ever. So it was arranged that she should spend two-thirds (according to later authors, one-half) of every year with her mother and the heavenly gods, and should pass the rest of the year with Pluto beneath the earth. ... As wife of Pluto, she sent spectres, ruled the ghosts, and carried into effect the curses of men.
A couple of paintings of Persephone could be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone

Answer 8

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

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Wikipedia tells the story excellently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone

They also have one of the nicest images that you can download.

Answer 9

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