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CLASSICAL
GREEK - Persephone
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Persephone (may mean sheaf-beater) was the goddess
of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in
the Eleusinian Mysteries.
She was titled Kore (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty.
While sporting with her Nymph companions, she was seized by Hades and
carried off to the underworld as his bride. Her mother Demeter
despaired at her disappearance and searched for her the throughout the
world (accompanied by the goddess Hecate bearing torches). When she
learned that Zeus had known of her daughter's abduction she was
furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was
returned. Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food
of Hades--a handful of pomegranate seeds--she was required to forever
spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. Her
annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of
the meadows and the sudden growth of the new grain. Her return to the
underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the
halting of growth.
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