Zeus then promised to bring Persephone back from the underworld if it could be proved that Hades was holding her against her will. The cries of those suffering could even be heard on Mount Olympus, and Zeus knew that if he did not stop Demeter’s wrath, humanity would disappear. The actions of Demeter resulted in untold misery. The earth began to dry, harvests began to fail, plants withered, and animals died because of the lack of food, famine spread across the earth. She roamed the earth for days on end, searching and not fulfilling her duties as goddess of the harvest and fertility. Demeter was driven mad by her daughter’s disappearance. It was when the river Sion washed up the bells of Persephone that Demeter knew something dreadful had happened to her daughter. Furious that they were unable to protect her daughter, she cursed them with plumed bodies, scaly feet and wings they would now be called The Sirens. When she asked the Nymphs that she had left to watch over her daughter, they had no answer. When Demeter returned, her daughter was nowhere to be found. Upon seeing her friend descend deep into the underworld, she began to cry until she melted into a pool of her own tears form in the river Sion. The nymph Sion had seen the abduction, and she attempted to rescue Persephone, but she was no match for Hades. He grabbed Persephone before she was able to scream for help. From that chasm emerged Hades and his chariot of black horses. When she stooped down to pick the flower, the earth beneath her began to quake, and a gaping chasm soon appeared. Wandering into the garden alone, Persephone saw the narcissus flower and was immediately drawn to its beauty. Knowing that the nymphs would never let Persephone out of their sight, for fear of Demeter’s wrath, Zeus had Gaia plant a narcissus flower in a nearby garden. When Persephone is with her mother the crops grow, when she is with Hades the crops die.The next morning, Demeter and her daughter descended upon the earth, and Persephone was left with the nymphs of the sea as her guides and Watchers while her mother tended to the earth. The other two thirds of the year she could spend with her mother. The problem was that Persephone had already eaten pomegranate seeds from the underworld,because of that she was required to spend a third of the year in the underworld as Hades wife. So finally, Zeus agreed to get Persephone back. Without Demeter crops would not grow, and the human race would become extinct. When she finally asked Zeus to get her daughter back, and he refused to help, so she backed out of being a goddess. Her mother, Demeter, walked the Earth searching for her. One day, while gathering flowers she was abducted by Hades.
Hades is a Greek god of underwood and Persephone, his wife, is Greek goddess of spring or the queen of underworld, but that’s not all she is, she’s actually the reason for the seasons. On this weekends I will go on a honeymoon trip to Greece, therefore I decided to do one more work on the theme of Greek mythology! I hope you will enjoy it (Music: Xandria – In Love with the Darkness)
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