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  ** Introduction ** **Persephone was a goddess that didn’t live on mount Olympus. Persephone lived with her mother on earth, Demeter. She was a beautiful goddess who was nice to most people. One day while she was picking flowers in a valley the ground split opened and out came Hades, the god of the underworld. He loved Persephone and so did a lot of other men. Hades wanted her for himself but, Demeter said he couldn’t marry her. The only way she would be his wife, was to kidnap her.** **Body Paragraph** ** When Persephone was in the underworld she would not eat or drink anything. Every day she asked if she could go back to the world of the living and be with her mother but, he said no for he wanted her to be with him forever even though he was her uncle. When Demeter couldn’t find Persephone she ignored the earth to find her missing daughter. While Demeter was trying to find her daughter she had left everything to die. When Zeus saw the earth in this condition, he talked to Demeter to find out what was going on. She had explained to Zeus what had happened and then the sun came up had told Demeter and Zeus that Hades kidnapped her. Zeus talked to Hades and told him to give Persephone back but, Hades told him that only if she hadn’t eaten anything. Persephone had eaten six pomegranate seeds so she had to spend six months with Hades and six months on earth Pomegranate seeds represent marriage so Persephone had to marry Hades. This explains the seasons. She spends six months with Hades (autumn and winter) and six months on earth (spring and summer). Closing sentences Persephone spends six months with Hades and six months on earth with her mother Demeter and sometimes her father Zeus who lives on Mount Olympus. She Greets the dead when they enter the under world. She welcomes the hero’s to the Elysian Fields where hero’s dwelled after they died. When she is on earth she helps her mother. Persephone is the queen of the under world, the goddess of the dead, the goddess of harvest and wife of Hades, the god of the underworld.

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