Persephone, the woman who went from being known as 'Kore' (translation : Beautiful Maiden) to 'Persephone' (translation : Bringer of Death & Destruction), from being the Goddess of Spring to Queen of the Underworld. Across various tellings of her myth, the story of the pomegranate remains constant : While in the Underworld, Persephone ate a few pomegranate seeds, while her mother Demeter, Goddess of Harvest, wreaked havoc looking for her lost daughter, allowing no food-grain to grow on the earth's surface in her despair. Hearing the pleas of the hungry humans, Zeus intervened and asked Persephone to return to earth. However, having eaten food of the Underworld, Persephone was now obliged to spend a portion of the year with Hades. And so it became that while she spent her time on earth with her mother, flowers bloomed in warm weather, and her return to the underworld brought winter.
Persephone is not just a symbol of change from summer to winter and the return of life in spring, but also the transition from life to death itself. She is change, duality, contradiction, Life & Death.
Persephone is not just a symbol of change from summer to winter and the return of life in spring, but also the transition from life to death itself. She is change, duality, contradiction, Life & Death.
