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What was this Greek Goddesses Name?
The story goes:
Hades loved this woman so he kidnapped her. Enraged her mother sent the world into winter. Zeus made a compromise that half the year this girl would spend with her mother (that's when we have summer)
and the other half she spent with Hades (that's where we get winter).
I can't remember the name for the girl or her mother.
Thank you so much,
That was bugging the hell out of me.
9 Answers
- OlympiasbcLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
The young girl ('Kore' which means maiden) took the name Persephone (or Proserpine in Latin), and her mother is Demeter. How long Persephone (as well as how she got there) remains in Hades depends on what myth you read . Persephone became the Queen of the Underworld and remained as Goddess of the Spring per the Eleusinian Mysteries (at Eleusis 14 miles out of Athens). This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife.
Persephone was usually depicted as a young goddess holding sheafs of grain and a flaming torch. Sometimes she was shown in the company of her mother Demeter, and the hero Triptolemos, the teacher of agriculture. At other times she appears enthroned beside Haides/Hades.
Source(s): http://theoi.com/Khthonios/Persephone.html - Anonymous1 decade ago
Persephone at 6 pomegranate seeds when she was kidnapped by Zeus. That was the reason for the 6 month split.
Demeter/Ceres is the goddess of the seasons and harvest, and is the mother.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The mother is Demeter. The Daughter was known to the Greeks as Persephone or Core (which meant "maiden") and to Romans as Proserpone though, like her husbad, she had a great many names so they didn't have to refer to her directly, as is was considered unwise to attract the attention of the Gods of the Underworld (hers included "Iron Queen" or "Core" or "Nestis"0
She originated from pre-Greek myths of the maiden/mother/crone variety - where Core and Persephone would have been names for different aspects of the triad.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone Robert Graves' Greek Myths - 1 decade ago
Persephone ate from the tree in hades and her mother was Demeter
Source(s): google and my local library - 1 decade ago
since 2 people have already answered... she ate a pomagranite seed while in the under world, that is why she had to return each year.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
persephone
Source(s): www.wikipedia.org