Hades' symbol of power is the Helm of Darkness, which allows him to become a shadow. When Demeter and her daughter were united, the Earth flourished with vegetation and color, but for six months each year, when Persephone returned to the Underworld, Demeter mourned and the earth once again became a barren realm. Some versions of the myth have Persephone eventually fall in love with her new husband in return, and other at least say that she respected him and her new powers as Queen of the Underworld. Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades convinced Persephone to eat six pomegranate seeds, knowing they would eternally connect her to return to the Underworld and force her to return for six months each year. However, it was a rule of the Fates that whoever consumed food or drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there. He very much wanted her love and tried to buy it with many gifts at first, but then took to spending all of his day with her, trying to make her happy.įinally, Zeus, pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone. She hated him at first, for snatching her away from her mother, but she soon reveled that her mother wasn't around, as she had never been away from her before. Hades was determined to make Persephone love him, and tried in many ways. She then stopped working the Earth, and the land didn't flourish. Helios, the Titan god of the Sun, who sees everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter, goddess of the Harvest, searched everywhere for her lost daughter. Later, the Nymphs were changed by Demeter into the Sirens for not having interfered. Persephone was innocently picking flowers with some Nymphs in a field in Enna when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. After obtaining the permission of Zeus he decided to kidnap her. He soon fell in love with her, and plotted on how he would get her. He spied Persephone one day, in the fields with her mother Demeter, and decided he would have her, admiring her.
Hades spent his childhood in his father's stomach, along with most of his brothers and sisters: Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, and Hera. 6.4 With Persephone - Macaria, In some traditions also Plutus, Zagreus and Melinoe.
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