Persephone
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Persephone is Demeter's lovely daughter. One day, she was playing in a field and Hades kidnapped her. He tried to make her marry him, but she refused. Meanwhile, the earth, which had always been fruitful, had the first winter ever as Demeter mourned for her daughter. She thought Persephone was lost forever, and she was so sad that she was unable to help the hungry people on earth. Zeus finally stepped in. He came down to Hades and demanded that Persephone be brought back to Demeter. Hades said he'd love to help, but Persephone had gotten so hungry, she had eaten three pomegranate seeds. Demeter started crying all over again, because if you eat the food of the underworld, you must stay there always. But Zeus thought of the starving Greeks, and heartbroken Demeter, and decided that Persephone was to be an exception not only beauty, but also in the rule that states that those who eat the food of the dead must stay with Hades forever. Persephone only spends three months in the Underworld now, and that is why we have winter.
