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Persephone Goes To Hell For Another Winter by Kathleen Cameron

PURCHASE AT PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed was titled Kore (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's Once upon a time when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was seized by Haides and carried off to the underworld as his Her mother Demeter despaired at her dissappearance and searched for her the throughout the world accompanied by the goddess Hekate bearing When she learned that Zeus had conspired in her daughter's abduction she was furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Haides--a handful of pomegranate seeds--she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the Her annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of the meadows and the sudden growth of the new Her return to the underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of other myths, Persephone appears exclusively as the queen of the underworld, receiving the likes of Herakles and Orpheus at her was usually depicted as a young goddess holding sheafs of grain and a flaming Sometimes she was shown in the company of her mother Demeter, and the hero Triptolemos, the teacher of At other times she appears enthroned beside