That she will spend part of the year down in the underworld with Hades and part of the year on earth with her mother Demeter so that life can live again. And he makes a deal with Hades that because Persephone ate some pomegranate seeds. And this goes on for quite a long time where everything on the earth dies because of Persephone being gone and Demeter mourning her. That because she is the goddess of the earth. That Demeter mourns the loss of so much. has been taken from her and that she will never see her again, because she can’t go down into the underworld and stay there. Well, This is where the myth kind of diverges into two different stories about why we have seasons. And we’ll talk about the significance of that number here in a second. So in some versions of the myth, she eats three pomegranate seeds. The rule is if you eat any food from the underworld, you cannot leave the underworld. ![]() Now while she was down in the underworld, he tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds. But the story goes is that he kidnapped Persephone. And I’ll talk about why here in a minute. Maybe I’m a little bit of a hopeless romantic, but I like to think that maybe it’s not a kidnapping. And he takes her down into the underworld. Now this happens all the time in the myths where God falls in love with somebody else and they have to have them. And he falls immediately in love with her. Hades spies her from a crack in the earth. I kind of picture her a little bit like snow white, maybe, or Aurora from sleeping beauty. And Persephone is the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, and she is the goddess of vegetation and she was incredibly beautiful. So first we have Demeter who was the goddess of the harvest fertility and the earth. So first, let me introduce our characters. But they’re both anchored in the same story. So there are actually two myths surrounding Persephone about why we have seasons. So today we’re going to retell the story of Persephone and Demeter and explain why we have seasons according to the Greek myths. That Persephone has gone back down into the underworld to join her husband. And this is a special day in Greek mythology. And it is the fall Equinox or the Autumnal Equinox. And we’re back today on a special day it’s September 22nd, 2021. ![]() Welcome back to another episode of teaching mythology. Looking for the full episode – Click HERE. ![]() Teaching Mythology Episode 013 Why we have seasons according to Greek Mythology Transcript
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