Born on Olympus, the daughter of Demeter and Zeus brought light to all of the residents of Olympus. Full of life with a sweet disposition and an affinity for nature she was admired by many and even as a child Gods would ask her mother for her hand in marriage. Her mother grew paranoid and jealous. Starting to keep her daughter hidden from all.
But one was still watching, and one day as she wandered her mother’s garden on Earth, the ground opened up and from the darkness emerged the most handsome god that the young goddess had ever laid eyes upon and he asked her to come with him.
In her first act of rebellion, Persephone went with Hades to the Underworld where she heard of how he asked her mother for her hand only to be laughed at. Persephone assured him she was not laughing and that she wished to get to know him. They spent glorious months together laughing and getting to know each other and by the time her mother had realised where Persephone was, the Goddess of Spring was head over heels for the God of the Underworld.
Her mother began to tarnish the earth and desperate to stay with the man she loved Persephone begged Hades to let her eat the seeds of the fruit of the dead - the pomegranate. After much convincing he allowed her and when they were called before Zeus, he asked her where she wanted to be and she told him the Underworld and announced to the other deities that she had eaten the fruit. Demeter howled in rage, demanding that her daughter returned to her. Zeus declares her rightful home to be the Underworld.
But her mother wouldn’t let it drop and froze the earth, killing the harvests, the humans until Zeus declared that Persephone would split her year between Olympus and the Underworld. But that he blessed a union between Persephone and Hades; and he and Poseidon attended the wedding.
And so for centuries the cycle repeated. Six months of happiness with her husband and six months of misery with the mother who saw her as a trophy.
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