Frederic Leighton, The Return of Persephone, 1891. Wikimedia Commons. The Demeter Hymn contains the foundation myth of the Eleusinian Mysteries - renowned religious rites which took place at ...

Persephone has eaten just a few pomegranate seeds, so Zeus determines that she will be allowed to return to Demeter for six months of the year, but then must return to Hades for the other six months.

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Ever imperious, Zeus ordered Demeter to return to her duties – unsurprisingly, she refused. Eventually, Demeter came to the site of Persephone’s abduction. Reduced to a pool of water, Cyane ...

Zeus sent Hermes to negotiate Persephone’s return. A compromise was struck: Persephone would live eight months each year on Earth and four in the underworld. Before she returned to Earth ...

However, because Persephone had eaten a single pomegranate seed in the underworld it meant she could no longer be completely free to return to the world of the living. ADVERTISEMENT Instead she must ...

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However, because Persephone had eaten a single pomegranate seed in the underworld it meant she could no longer be completely free to return to the world of the living. Instead she must spend one ...