Persephone The Greek Goddess Of The Underworld

Persephone was the greek goddess of the harvest in the underworld. She was abducted by Hades, The god of the underworld, Infuriating her mother who made the crops wither and the the earth barren. When Hades abducted Persephone he offered her a pomegranate and she ate it, binding him to her for ⅓ of a year. That's when Hades decided to let her spend 3 months in the underworld and 8 months on Earth with her mother. When she returned back to the underworld she married Hades and had 3 children with him and the name of those “The Erinyes”. Her mother was Demeter and her Father was Zeus, she had 2 siblings, Zagreus and Melinoe. The background of the pomegranate is that they mean “Promise of Fertile Land” which means that every spring the crops and