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PERESPHONE



 Persephone is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology. **She is the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, goddess of the harvest. Persephone was such a beautiful young woman that everyone loved her, even Hades wanted her for himself. One day, when she was collecting flowers on the plain of Enna, the earth suddenly opened and Hades rose up from the gap and abducted her. None but Zeus, and the all-seeing sun, Helios, had noticed it. **

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Persephone was also the goddess of spring growth.(grain crop). When she returns every spring from the underworld, the earth flourished

, Hades fell in love with Persephone, he wanted her to be his wife so he kidnapped her, and made her do stuff she did not want to do. But she fell in love with him to. ** Hades and persephone ruled the underworld together. ** Zeus ordered him to release Persephone back to them. BUT HADES GAVE IN, AND MADE A DEAL. THAT PERESPHONE STAY ONE-THIRD OF THE YEAR WITH HIM. ONE-THIRD OF THE YEAR WITH ZEUZ, AND ONE-THIRD OF THE YEAR WITH DEMETER. 


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 * I respect Persephone because not only was she beautiful on the outside she was beautiful on the inside. She was a good person. She made stuff beautiful, like flower. She was the queen of the underworld. And while I was reading this passé I had seen a lady with a good heart. **


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--- This is a scupture by Gian Lorenzo of peresphone being abducted by hades.

this is a symbol of peresphone after she died