Hecate, goddess of magic, told Demeter she had sensed a powerful god used magic to cleave the earth and covered his track when kidnapping her. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter searched everywhere for her lost daughter. One day, Persephone was picking flowers with some of her nymphs in a field in Enna when Hades came out from the volcano Etna with four black horses named Orphnaeus, Aethon, Nycteus and Alastor to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. He asked help to Zeus, despite his estrangement with his brother. One day, he spotted her in the fields and became entranced by her beauty. Persephone's uncle, Hades, was very lonely and wanted a wife. Every time a male god come near to her, Demeter would appear on her dragon chariot, bradishing her gleaming golden sword on her hand and scared all the suitors away. When she reached marriageable age, several gods tried to woo Persephone, but Demeter, who suffered many horrible courtships, rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of other deities. There, on the endless field of the earth, Persephone would spend days hanging around with the nymphs and passed her days planting seeds and nurturing the flora. She then raised her daughter as far away from Olympus as possible, not wanting the manipulations and characteristics of the Olympian gods to affect her small child. Months later, she gave birth to a goddess who she named Persephone. She then transformed into a serpent to try and hide from him but to no avail, as he knew about it and transformed himself into one as well, and spent a single night together in the form of snakes.Īfter the affair ended, Demeter kicked him out and forbid him from ever messing with her again, which Zeus agreed due to fear of what his sister just threatened.
However, much to her dismay, Zeus continued to follow her no matter where she went. After countless refusals that he all ignored, Demeter became frustrated and left Olympus. Personality Powers and Abilities History Birth & Early Lifeīefore his marriage to Hera, Zeus was determine to court and make Demeter his wife. Most of the arts often depicted her while being carried off by Hades. She may also appear as a mystical divinity with a sceptre and a little box. Persephone is often depicted as invariably wearing robes, carrying a sheaf of grain.
Persephone is a beautiful fair-haired maiden dressed in regal robes, wearing intricate jewelry crafted from the finest of precious metals and jewels. Through her mother, she is the half-sister of Despoina, Arion, Plutus, Philomenus, and Iacchus. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, making her the half-sister of Artemis, Apollo, Athena, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, Dionysus, Enyo, Hebe, Eileithyia, Heracles, and many more children of Zeus. Persephone is associated with the underworld realm and its ruler and along with her mother Demeter, with the springtime growth of crops and the cycle of life, death and rebirth or renewal. Libera was originally daughter of the agricultural goddess Ceres and wife to Liber, god of wine and freedom. She was also combined with the Roman Goddess Libera who is also her sister. Through her husband Hades, she mothered the gods Zagreus, Macaria, Melinoë.
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