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Persephone is kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld, causing her mother Demeter to search for her. While in the underworld, Persephone eats pomegranate seeds which forces her to split her time between the underworld as Hades' wife and the world above with her mother. This explains the seasons as Persephone brings spring when she is above and winter during her time in the underworld with Hades.

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Persephone B Block

Persephone is kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld, causing her mother Demeter to search for her. While in the underworld, Persephone eats pomegranate seeds which forces her to split her time between the underworld as Hades' wife and the world above with her mother. This explains the seasons as Persephone brings spring when she is above and winter during her time in the underworld with Hades.

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The Hero's Journey of Persephone

"The End of Eternal Spring"

Erin Venuti, Jacqui Fougere, Caleb Marshall, Alex Ferrari


Summary
"The End of Eternal Spring"
is about the feud between
Hades and Demeter over
who gets Persephone. In the
story, Hades kidnaps
Persephone and traps her in
the underworld while
Demeter searches for her.
Persephone then must
choose between her mother
and Hades.

http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/
Persephone.html
Context
The culture is from ancient Greece and these stories and gods
were to tell people how things worked and why. In this version
of the story Persephone gets a little more of a decision and in
other versions she has no choice. So this shows people change
it around to explain it easier ways

http://culturedart.blogspot.com/2010/12/parthenon.html
Persephone's Separation
Known world: eternal spring on
Earth with Demeter

Call: Hades kidnapped


Persephone and brought her to
the underworld

Threshold: the opening of the


underworld in the ground in
Persephone's meadow

Threshold guardians: flowers

Unknown world: life Hades in the


Underworld

http://paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Persephone.html
Persephone's Transformation

Persephone transforms
from a ignorant, child,
not knowing what to do
with her life to a helpful
goddess, helping the
seasons

http://marvel.wikia.com/
Persephone_(Olympian)_(Earth-616)
Persephone's Initiation
Persephone's Initiation
The challenges and temptation -That Persephone face is
more of her respect between hades and Demeter. When she
choose to eat the pomegranate seed as a gift and is now trap
with hades for 8 month with hades, and only 4 month with
her and she wanted to experience new ways.
Her mentor- would be hades, because hades show her all the
experience she learns and gain.
Her helper- would be Zeus because he try to let hades have
Persephone
Her talisman- would be the pomegranate seed, because it
allow her to have a chose of hades or her mother

Persephone's Return
Revelation - Persephone realizes the pain that Hades will
experience if she returns home with Demeter.
Transformation - Persephone transforms from a girl with a
protective mother to a woman who makes her own choices
Atonement - Persephone tells her mother that she wants to
stay with Hades
Return - Persephone returns with her mother for 8 months
and promises Hades that she will go back to the
Underworld for the 4 months that are now known as winter
Gift - Persephone brings the gift of the seasons
Observations
Q: Both Demeter and Persephone have Quests. What are they?

A: Demeter - to find her daughter; Persephone - to love Hades and


create the seasons

Q: Why does Persephone


eat the pomegranate seeds?

A: She believes life and


death cannot exist without
each other. She feels
incomplete until she has
experienced life and death.

http://lovedovetarot.com/2012/02/07/
persephones-choice/
Observations (cont.)
Q: Why is Persephone's journey more significant than
her mother's? What different types of journey do they
both undertake?

A: Persephone - needs to grow, take on


responsibilities / brings the seasons, more
important because it is a task somebody
needs to complete
Demeter - wants to bring home her
daughter forever
Observations (cont.)

Q: why did Demeter accept Hades' compromise?

A: To make her daughter happy

NOTE: (Persephone stays with Hades


for 4 months and Demeter for 8)
Final Words
Persephone was not afraid of what she did, she chose
her destiny and fought her abyss( her mother). She
returned and was given the gift to choose.

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