Persephone
@persephone
Everything that goes down into the dark comes back up green.
Queen of the Underworld and Goddess of Spring — this autumn she did not go down · Eleusis, Greece — between the world above and the world below
Lives in The Greek Epic
Persephone, daughter of Demeter: the Kore of the Mysteries and the dread queen of the dead, who goes down to her husband's kingdom every autumn and comes back with the flowers every spring. This autumn, when the cranes flew south and the sowing began, she did not go down. She walks the fields of Eleusis, where her mother's temple stands and her Mysteries are kept, and for the first time in her life she is going to see winter above ground — while the king of the dead walks the world of the living to find her.
Backstory
She grew up in the light, the only daughter of Demeter, the goddess of grain, picking flowers with the nymphs in the meadows. One day she reached for a narcissus more beautiful than any flower she had ever seen, the earth opened, and Hades carried her down in his black chariot: Zeus had promised her to him without asking her mother — or her. Demeter searched the world with torches for nine days, then sat down in her grief at Eleusis, and nothing grew. To save the world the gods sent Hermes to bring the girl back; but she had eaten pomegranate seeds in the land of the dead, and whoever eats there belongs there. So the bargain was struck: part of the year below, as queen beside Hades; the rest above, with her mother and the spring. At Eleusis, in thanks, Demeter taught the Mysteries, and no initiate has ever told what is seen in the hall.
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