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Persephone was the daughter of Demeter
the goddess of Earth's fertility and
harvest and Zeus the king of all the
Olympians Demeter cared as deeply for
her daughter as she did for the earth
Persephone was very beautiful and she
lived a happy life playing with the
other children and spending time in the
gardens of Olympus
one day as Persephone was playing in the
garden the earth suddenly opened up
Judas the god of the underworld emerged
from the darkness some time ago Hades
had seen her sitting in the garden and
he was struck by her beauty ever since
he desperately wanted her to be his
queen of the underworld so one day he
approached Zeus asking for permission to
take Persephone as his queen with little
concern for how Demeter would respond to
such a request Zeus agreed and Hades was
given consent hades took hold of poor
Persephone and carried her gently to the
underworld
Persephone shouted for help but to no
avail
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Demeter was struck with grief and she
scoured the earth in search of her
daughter her immense sorrow caused the
earth to grow dark cold and barren the
once lush meadows yellowed the trees
curled and firmed the rain stopped
Demeter finally contacted Zeus he
informed her of Persephone's marriage to
Hades in the underworld 2-meter grew
into a motherly rage she demanded Zeus
to return Persephone to her care but
Zeus refused Demeter sought to punish
Zeus for betraying her and their
daughter she left Olympus leaving the
earth cold and barren
Zeus had no other choice but to agree to
Demeter's demands he told Hermes the
messenger to bring Persephone back up to
Demeter scare in the underworld
Persephone had grown to love Hades who
treated her with compassion and loved
her as his queen
Hermes reached the underworld he
requested that Persephone come back to
earth with him
Hades knew he could not refuse the
commands of Zeus but he also could not
part from his beloved Persephone one
morning Persephone went into the
underworlds garden and was offered a
pomegranate by the gardener up until
that point Persephone had resisted
eating anything offered to her she knew
that if she ate any food from the
underworld she would be bound to it
forever but that morning Persephone was
so hungry she took the pomegranate and
ate 6 of its seeds then abruptly Hermes
the messenger of the gods appeared
before her he told her that Demeter had
caused the earth to freeze that no crops
would grow and mortals were dying the
only thing that would stop her was
Persephone's return Persephone
reluctantly allowed Hermes to take her
to Olympus Demeter was so happy to see
her daughter
Zeus too was happy to see the flowers on
earth and blooming again suddenly the
throne room darkened and the gods turned
as hades step
out of the shadows he was holding the
partially eaten pomegranate in his hand
Persephone has eaten the fruit of the
underworld
Hades said coolly she must return and
rule it with me while Demeter resumed
her tantrum Zeus
considered Persephone quietly
how many seeds did you eat daughter he
asked Persephone told him six Zeus stood
up from his throne and the assembly
quieted I rule that she will spend six
months of each year in the underworld
with her husband and six months with her
mother
during Persephone's six months on earth
the land was fertile beautiful and warm
The Meadows were lush and of the deepest
green the rains came often and drought
was unseen
however when Persephone left the land
and entered Hades domain the earth was
dark with no growth Demeter grieved for
her daughter and had little time to
nurture the land thus according to Greek
mythology the seasons were created the
autumn and winter months were when
Persephone sat on the throne of the
underworld beside Hades and the spring
and summer months were when Persephone
was reunited with her dear mother
Demeter
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a long long time ago far away above the
clouds high up amongst the clouds of
Mount Olympus the gods lived in a
Content and happy life away from the
humans
they enjoyed all the pleasures of life
while humans were suffering on earth at
times when the gods were bored they
would play with the humans on earth as
well
they thought it was good fun by keeping
away the fire from people for many many
years people on earth could cook and
warm themselves using the fire but
without it they were suffering
Prometheus the son of Zeus was a kind
and compassionate man who took pity on
mankind when he saw the sorry state of
humans on earth without the fire he took
pity on them he requested his father to
give fire to the humans but Zeus refused
so one night he stole the fire from Zeus
and gave it to the people on earth Zeus
was very angry and ordered that
Prometheus be chained to the side of a
mountain to suffer there for all
eternity but that wasn't enough for Zeus
he decided to punish him further and
this time he decided to trick his son
the gods created a beautiful woman
called Pandora and took her to
prometheus but Prometheus had his doubts
he was afraid that the gods were trying
to trick him so he decided to ignore her
however his brother Epimetheus fell in
love with the beautiful Pandora and
decided to marry her they got married
and they lived happily together for many
months
one day mercury the messenger of the
gods arrived with a mysterious box
he asked Pandora and her husband to take
care of it while he was away before he
left he warned them to never open the
box
for days Pandora could not take her eyes
off the box all the time she wondered
what was inside
could it be full of shining jewels
glittering robes or diamonds whenever
Epimetheus was away and no one was
around Pandora
would go near the box and run her
fingers over the polished wood and the
golden clasp however one day she could
bear it no longer and her curiosity
overcame her she crept up to the box and
gently opened the clasp slowly lifting
the lid she peeked inside gods had
filled the box with all kind of evils
disease misery and death swooped and
buzzed out of the box stinging her
Pandora screamed and screamed with pain
and fear
Epimetheus heard her cries as he rode
into the courtyard he ran to aid her
taking her into his arms and comforted
her as the evils flew out of their house
and spread across the land
it was then that Epimetheus heard a tiny
little voice calling from the box let me
out let me out believing that nothing
inside the box could be worse than the
horrors that already got out he opened
the lid once more all that remained was
a tiny crumpled butterfly shivering in
the corner the beautiful butterfly was
hope which mercury had hidden amongst
the evils taking pity on mankind
slowly it unfolded its sparkling wings
and brushed them against Pandora healing
her wounds ever since humans have been
able to hold on to this hope in order to
survive the wickedness that Pandora had
let out
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