She pulled with all her power and the narcissus only came out after a lot of effort. Therefore, she decided to go alone and pluck the flower from the bosom of Gaia. She called upon her playmates, the sea Nymphs, to accompany her but they couldn’t possibly go with her as leaving the side of their water bodies would result in their death. He then asked his brother Zeus, an expert in abductions, to assist him, and so the two of them devised a plan to trap her.Īs Kore was playing with her companions, she noticed a beautiful yellow flower narcissus. The location of the crime is being traditionally placed in either Sicily (famed for its fertility) or Asia. The Myth of Hades and PersephoneĪccording to myth, Hades fell instantly in love with divinely beautiful Persephone when he saw her picking flowers one day in nature. Persephone is also associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries, the greatest religious initiations of antiquity. In this guise, she is considered the queen of the Underworld and a protector of the souls of the dead. She was also the wife of Hades, the god of the Underworld, and brother of Zeus and Poseidon. Persephone, also known as Kore, was the daughter of the Olympian goddess Demeter, and she was thus associated with vegetation and grain. The myth of Hades and Persephone is one of the most well-known stories of love and abduction in Greek mythology.
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