- Persephone – Mythopedia
Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the wife of Hades, and the queen of the Underworld Her most important myth tells of how Hades abducted her, then tricked her into eating something in the Underworld so that she could never leave Not even her mother, Demeter, could bring her home
- Demeter – Mythopedia
Demeter and Persephone came to be viewed as two aspects of the same agricultural cycle Demeter and Persephone by John D Batten (19th or 20th century) Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Demeter was also connected with Rhea, the Titan mother of the gods; Cybele, a mother goddess imported from Phrygia; and Gaia, the primordial earth goddess
- Hades – Mythopedia
But Hades’ acquiescence came with a minor stipulation If Persephone had refused all food while she was in the Underworld, he would allow her to go free If she had eaten something, however, she would be forced to return to him during certain times of the year During her time in Hades, Persephone had eaten a few pomegranate seeds
- Dionysus – Mythopedia
Photo showing a view of the excavation of Eleusis, Greece This is the site of the annual Eleusinian Mysteries and an early temple to Demeter and Persephone, built around the 7th century BCE Marcus Cyron CC BY-SA 2 0 The Eleusinian Dionysus Iacchus was the son of Zeus and either Persephone or Demeter (Persephone’s mother)
- Adonis - Mythopedia
But when Persephone saw how beautiful Adonis was, she refused to return him The goddesses eventually asked Zeus to judge their case; he ruled that Adonis would spend part of the year with Aphrodite and another part with Persephone (depending on the version, Adonis either spent half the year with each goddess or one-third of the year with each goddess, with another third to do with as he pleased)
- Hecate – Mythopedia
When Persephone was abducted by her uncle Hades and spirited away to his gloomy Underworld kingdom, Hecate was the only one who heard her cries When Persephone’s mother, Demeter, was wandering the earth in search of her daughter, Hecate revealed what she had heard Unfortunately, she did not know where Persephone had been taken
- Ceres – Mythopedia
Thus, the mythology of Ceres—like that of Demeter—was centered on the abduction of her daughter Proserpina (Persephone in Greek sources) by the powerful chthonic deity Dis (Hades or Pluto) It was one of the most famous myths in the ancient world, first appearing in the second Homeric Hymn and later retold in various Roman sources, including Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Fasti and Claudian
- Greek Underworld Gods - Mythopedia
In addition to Hades, the Underworld housed several other deities, both revered and dreaded by the ancients These included Hades’ queen, Persephone; Charon, the ferryman of the dead; the Erinyes, who mercilessly punished sinners; and the Moirae, who ensured that every mortal lived out his life according to his fate
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