.. The Goddess Demeter tended the countryside as if it were her garden and the flowers were always in bloom and the crops ready for harvest. While she worked her little daughter Persephone used to play in the green woods picking violets until her apron was full. Mother and daughter would walk home hand in hand singing and laughing and the primroses would open just to see them walk by.
Pluto ruled over the kingdom of the dead and lived under the earth. He was desperately lonely. The light hurt his eyes but his loneliness hurt more so one day he climbed to the brim of the underworld and saw Persephone. He loved her. He harnessed his black chariot and snatched Persephone by her hair. Persephone was terrified but Pluto said you shall have the love of a king and all the gems in the world but Persephone wanted her Mother and wept. She tipped the violets into the river which divides the earth from the kingdom of the dead and plunged into darkness.
Demeter called, "Persephone darling time to go home!"
But Persephone had disappeared.
Demeter searched the world over.
Nothing mattered but to find Persephone and Demeter's work was left undone. The flowers wilted and the crops died and the trees shed their leaves.
One day Demeter returned to Sicily and sat in despair by the river, in the distance she saw a little chain of violets and they whispered "Persephone is in the underworld stolen by Pluto."
Demeter ran to mount Olympus and rattled the gates, "Zeus! Zeus! I cannot function without my Persephone and the earth will wither and die."
Zeus decreed that it was wrong for Pluto to have stolen Persephone and he did not want the earth to die, so he ordered Hermes to collect her, but if she has eaten anything in the underworld and accepted Pluto's hospitality she may not return.
Even though Hermes was the fastest of all the gods, Demeter was faster that day.
For days Persephone had pined and wept and now Pluto placed a banquet in front of her throne. He pushed 12 pomegranate seeds into her hands and Persephone ate 6.
Hermes and Demeter arrived but it was too late, Persephone had eaten.
"I will hate you forever because you tricked me." she cried to Pluto and Pluto wept because he had tricked her because he was lonely.
When Zeus heard what had happened he declared Persephone should live every year for 6 months with Pluto in the underworld and for six months with her Mother on earth.
That is why every year the trees drop their leaves and the crops stop growing; they are waiting for Persephone to return with the Spring.
Every Mother will lose her daughter for a time and every daughter will stray just too far to return completely but they bring light to the underworld and create the seasons of the earth.ABRAZOS GRATIS!
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