The cries and pleas of the people who were suffering reached Zeus, so he decided to find a solution.

Due to that, the Earth began to dry up, harvests failed, plants lost their fruitfulness, animals died due to lack of food, and famine spread across the whole Earth.

As revenge, she decided to take a long and indefinite leave from her duties as the goddess of harvest and fertility.

Demeter was furious with what Hades did and that her husband (Zeus) would keep it from her.

Due to Demeter’s pleas, Helios told Demeter that Persephone was abducted by Hades.

Demeter wandered the Earth to look for her daughter, and her friend, Hecate (goddess of wilderness and childbirth) gave her advice to seek help from Helios, the all-seeing sun god.

However, the whole incident was witnessed by Zeus (Persephone’s father and Hades’ brother) and by Helios (the god of the sun), but both of them decided to remain silent.

The other girls who were with Persephone did not see anything.

Hades grabbed the lovely maiden Persephone and descended back into the Underworld.

However, one day, while Persephone was playing and picking flowers in a valley, the land beneath her feet suddenly cleaved open and through the opening came out Hades with his chariot and black horses.

Hades asked for Persephone’s hand from Demeter, but Demeter got furious.

Hades was living in the dark among the shadows of the dead.

One of the persistent suitors of Persephone was Hades, the god of the Underworld.

However, Demeter (her mother) kept all men away from Persephone.

Persephone was also called Kore, which means “maiden” and is loved and adored by many other gods.

Persephone is often depicted as a young goddess holding sheaves of grain and a flaming torch.

Persephone was a dual deity, as she is both the goddess of vegetation and also the goddess of fertility.

Persephone was the wife of Hades, the god of the Underworld.

Persephone (also known as Kore or Kara) was the the daughter of Demeter (goddess of harvest and fertility) and Zeus (god of sky and thunder, and the god of all gods).

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