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In Greek mythology, Persephone, also called Kore, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld. The myth tells the story of Persephone and other young girls gathering flowers in a meadow. As she bends down to pick a beautiful flower, the earth opens up and Hades emerges on his horse-drawn chariot. She gives out a scream, but he carries her off into the depths of the earth. Her mother hears her cry, and begins a search for her throughout the whole world. Whilst ever Persephone is missing Demeter creates a blight on the land in which nothing germinates and nothing grows. She would have destroyed humanity altogether if Zeus hadn’t taken notice, and acted accordingly. Demeter would not let go of her fury at the loss of her daughter. She wouldn't go to Olympus, the home of the gods, and she won’t let the fruit grow on earth until she sees Persephone again. Zeus is forced to relent and sends the messenger Hermes to the Underworld to get Persephone back. But, just as she is going, Hades prevails on her to eat the seed of a pomegranate to prevent her from staying with her mother above the earth all her days. Persephone is therefore forced to spend one-third of each year under the earth with Hades, and two-thirds with her mother and the community of gods on Mount Olympus.
Persephone’s transition from the world of a flowery meadow to the unrelenting male world of Hades could scarcely be more fundamental. The male gods who perpetrate the deed, Zeus and Hades, have no redeeming features whatever in the Hymn, and they are really undone by the sheer force of Demeter’s love for her daughter. Persephone’s eating of the pomegranate seed means that a compromise is set up, in which the world changes forever. Whereas she might have expected an immortal existence with her mother on Olympus, Persephone becomes the central figure in a new cycle of life and death. She is both queen of the Underworld, as wife of Hades, and associated with the new life that rises with the Spring. Death and life are no longer mutually exclusive, but co-exist in both the upper and lower worlds. Like many Greek myths the story of Persephone’s descent into the realm of Hades, and her emergence from it, has resonances in contemporary arts, most especially the notion of death and rebirth.
The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation, which shoots forth in Spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest; hence, she is also associated with spring as well as the fertility of vegetation.
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