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Persephone
was picking flowers in the meadow when she was kidnapped and taken to the
underworld.
The mythological story, “Demeter & her daughter Persephone” was written by
Greeks to explain how the season’s came to be (winter, summer, spring, fall).
At
the beginning in the story, "Her
daughter Persephone had not returned and no trace of her was found apart from a
few wilting flowers. Demeter roamed the countryside, searching and seeking far
and wide. At first, she was angry that anyone could have taken her beautiful
daughter but soon her fury turned to sadness and despair and, as a consequence,
the earth was sad along with her. The crops did not thrive, the land became
barren and sorrow began to creep over the earth like a thick fog. “Who will help
me find my daughter?” wailed Demeter with her arms lifted towards the
sky.”(myths
and legends). In
the beginning of the myth Demeter's daughter Persephone goes missing and Demeter
starts to get sad and with her sadness came famine. Crops did not thrive on
earth. At
the end of the myth,
"Every Spring Demeter makes sure flowers blossom on the meadows and the mountains
bloom to welcome home her loving daughter Persephone. Every Autumn Demeter
cries, the leaves fall and the crops are at an end, as her daughter returns,
willingly, as Queen of the Underworld to Hades, her husband. Until the
Spring, when the cycle starts again!"(myths
& legends). Every
year Persephone has to go to the underworld and stay with hades for six month,
during this time Demeter covers Earth with snow and crops do not thrive creating
winter. When Persephone comes home to Demeter the snow melts and crops thrive
creating summer.
The purpose of this myth was to show ancient Greeks how and why there are
seasons on Earth.