Story of Proserpine
(extracts from Wikipedia)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proserpina)
Proserpine (sometimes spelt Prosperine or Prosperina) is an ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of Springtime. Her Greekgoddess' equivalent is Persephone. The probable origin of her name comes from the Latin, "proserpere" or "to emerge," in respect to the growing of grain[2]. Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life–death–rebirth deity. She was the daughter of Ceres, goddess of agriculture and crops[4] and Jupiter, the god of sky and thunder.
Venus, in order to bring love to Pluto, sent her son Amor also known as Cupid to hit Pluto with one of his arrows. Proserpina was in Sicily, at the Pergusa Lake nearEnna, where she was playing with some nymphs and collecting flowers, when Pluto came out from the volcano Etna with four black horses named Orphnaeus, Aethon, Nycteus and Alastor[5]. He abducted her in order to marry her and live with her inHades, the Greco-Roman Underworld, of which he was the ruler. Notably, Pluto was also her uncle, being Jupiter's (and Ceres's) brother. She is therefore Queen of theUnderworld.
Her mother Ceres, the goddess of agriculture or of the Earth, went looking for her in vain to every corner of the earth, but wasn't able to find anything but a small belt that was floating upon a little lake (made with the tears of the nymphs). In her desperation Ceres angrily stopped the growth of fruits and vegetables, bestowing amalediction on Sicily. Ceres refused to go back to Mount Olympus and started walking on the Earth, making a desert at every step.
Worried, Jupiter sent Mercury to order Pluto (Jupiter's brother) to free Proserpina. Pluto obeyed, but before letting her go he made her eat six pomegranate seeds, because those who have eaten the food of the dead could not return to the world of the living. This meant that she would have to live six months of each year with him, and stay the rest with her mother. This story was undoubtedly meant to illustrate the changing of the seasons; When Ceres welcomes her daughter back in the spring the earth blossoms, and when Proserpina must be returned to her husband it withers.
In another version of the story, some people believe that upon her abduction, Proserpina ate only four pomegranate seeds, and she did so of her own accord. When Jupiter ordered her return, Pluto struck a deal with Jupiter, saying that since she had stolen his pomegranate seeds, she must stay with him four months of the year in return. For this reason, in spring when Ceres received her daughter back, the crops blossomed, and in summer they flourished. In the autumn Ceres changed the leaves to shades of brown and orange (her favorite colors) as a gift to Proserpina before she had to return to the underworld. During the time that Proserpina resided with Pluto, the world went through winter, a time when the earth was barren.
Now compare this story of Proserpine with Ramayana story
Ravana has taken the role of Pluto and Ram has taken the role of Mercury the messenger God. Even in India, Sita is considered to be daughter of mother goddess only. Ravana has abducted Sita the same way Pluto had abducted Proserpine. The only witness for abduction event was a water-fountain in Greek mythology. Here in India the role of water fountain has been taken up by Jatayu the eagle.
Even after returning to Ayodhya ---Sita is forced to leave her palace because of the bad situation created--- In the original Greek myth she is forced to return to under world---because she had shared some pomegranate seeds---the original Greek myth ---explained the change in seasons--winter and spring---the same story had been adapted in India with out realizing the fundamental---but had been used for propagating a new religious philosophy.
Further this theory explains another contradiction in Indian History, which could not be explained properly so far. For long time Indian historians observed the contradiction that even though Ramayana is considered to be older than Mahabharata incidents narrated in Ramayana really do not follow the geographical realities. Rama is ancestor of Padavas but the Ramayana incidents happened in the tertiary centre of Aryan occupation. Punjab is the first place to be occupied by Invading Aryans, for that matter it is always the first place of occupation by any invading foreigner in India. Delhi area becomes the second place of occupation, later as a third level of expansion only Aryans move into Gangetic plains. But the Ramayana story does not follow that geographic pattern.
Even though the Kurus and Pandavas are decedents of Rama, they occupy a place much ahead of Rama---how this contradiction can be explained?---Now this contradiction can be explained --- the contradiction is because adaption of different Greek Mythological stories ----without bothering about historical reality.