Only one person saw the evil deed take place. The sun god, Helios, had been sitting on his shiny perch and saw all that happened upon the face of the earth. When Demeter noticed that Persephone was missing, she wandered the earth looking for her daughter, but in vain.
Eventually, Helios, went to Demeter and apologized for not having the time to tell her sooner, but told her that he had witnessed Hades kidnapping Persephone.
Demeter was so angry she hid herself in grief. All the plants, flowers, and crops died. This story is about the sexual maturation of the young female, moving into erotic relationship with men despite the perfectionistic demands of the man-hating matriarchy.
I like the info but there is one problem and that would be, that it does not mention the actual god of death Thanatos. Other then that, it helped me to finish my mythology project for school. He took her away from Demeter her Mother. Every woman has to be separated from her Mommy mother sooner or later, if she is to go from being a girl to a full-fledged woman.
Hades symbolizes the archetypal energy necessary to perform that act for and with a woman. Hence a compromise was announced by Zeus, the leader of the Gods, that Persephone would spend the summer with her Mother and the winter with her husband as the Queen of Hades. She in time welcomed this arrangement as a mature woman does the presence of a strong man in her life. Persephone did not require Hades to achieve womanhood. In many versions, Persephony grew to love Hades.
Women did not have the opertunities men had and would need a husband in order to have a good life. The story is about a girl growing into a woman in their society. The mistake here what everyone tends to do is put contemporary morals and culture onto an ancient Myth.
But simply state the FACT that this story was written in a society ies where war, rape, abduction and forced marriages were common place, so it stands to reason that a story with a metaphorical theme of eternal death winter and rebirth spring will be soaked in what was the norm then…. But, in time, Persephone did fall in love with Hades and appreciate the separation from her suffocating mother.
Hades was so hopelessly in love with her, but he knew that Demeter would never allow her to go to the underworld. Thanks for the interesting story. I had known that Hades was the king of the underworld, but I was not completely familiar with the story of Persephone.
I wanted the info for a poem that I am writing. The Greek myths are allegorical, and I bet the smart ancients knew better than to take them literally. The warm months of spring and summer must yield to the cold and violence of winter, so perhaps the use of the word rape is unfortunate.
Winter must also yield to spring and summer eventually. In the ancient world abduction by a suitor was acceptable in some societies and was practised until relatively recently by many indigenous societies in the Americas.
It is still acted out symbolically in various marriage rituals, and lives on in certain expressions of love, eg. I agree with the second story. I feel like that story had more of the facts then the way it was told the first time. Overall I love the concept of this story. They are metaphorical. Hades on the other hand is the god of the underworld, the ruler of the dead. His wife is Persephone. Zeus and Hades were sons to Cronus and Rhea.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Spread the love. Who killed pirithous? Who tried seduce Persephone? Did Hades trick Persephone? The myth of Persephone was very popular in the ancient times and it is said that her story was represented in the Eleusinian Mysteries, the great private and secret celebrations of ancient Greece.
According to Greek Mythology, Persephone, the queen of the underworld, was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of harvest and fertility. She was also called Kore, which means "maiden" and grew up to be a lovely girl attracting the attention of many gods.
However, Demeter had an obsessed love for her only daughter and kept all men away from her. The most persisting suitor of Persephone was Hades, the god of the Underworld. He was a hard, middle-aged man, living in the dark, among the shadows of the Dead.
But his heart softened when he saw Persephone and was amazed by his youth, beauty and freshness. When he asked Demeter to marry her daughter, Demeter got furious and said there wasn't the slightest chance for that to happen. Hades was heart-broken and decided to get Persephone no matter what. One day, while the young girl was playing and picking flowers along with her friends in a valley, she beheld the most enchanting narcissus she had ever seen.
As she stooped down to pick the flower, the earth beneath her feet suddenly cleaved open and through the gap Hades himself came out on his chariot with black horses.
Hades grabbed the lovely maiden before she could scream for help and descended into his underworld kingdom while the gap in the earth closed after them. The other girls had not seen anything because everything happened very quickly. They didn't have a clue for the sudden disappearance of Persephone. The whole incident, however, had been witnessed by Zeus, father of the maiden and brother of the abductor, as well as by Helios, god of the Sun.
Zeus decided to keep silent about the whole thing to prevent a fight with his brother while Helios wisely thought it better not to get involved in anything that didn't concern him. A distraught and heartbroken Demeter wandered the earth looking for her daughter until her good friend Hecate, goddess of wilderness and childbirth, advised her to seek for the help of Helios, the all-seeing Sun god, in order to find her daughter.
Helios felt sorry for Demeter, who was crying and pleading him to help her.
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