#Persephone and hades

[artisticdemon]

DISNEEEEY!!!!!!

GIVE ME A MOVIE ABOUT HADES AND PERSEPHONE IN HERCULE'S ART STYLE AND I MIGHT FORGIVE ALL THE BULLSHIT YOU HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS!!!!!!

[faer1etale]

I feel like Hades/Persephone based novels that remove the kidnapping aspect of the story don't work, because the narrative is entirely dependent of the kidnapping, the story is about a mother losing her child, it's a tale to comfort women who had their daughters taken away from them through arranged/forced marriages, death, or other circumstances. It's a tale about a mother and daughter bond, yes it's also an allegory for the seasons changing but it's not JUST that. You have to understand bride-kidnapping is still a thing, and to sanitize that part of mythology is to erase the many girls who were and still are forced into marriage and have their autonomy stripped away. There are many other couples in the greek mythos that you can slot your "overprotective mother-in-law defies true love" narrative onto, just not this one, because it isn't a love story, it's an arranged marriage, it's about women. The kidnapping itself isn't even the most disturbing part of the myth, it's the fact that Persephone was forced to eating pomegrante seeds to be bounded to the underworld unwillingly. Is that not a direct breach of her consent?? This isn't a post to "slander" Hades, but just wanted to get showerthoughts outta my system, and also this isn't to discourage anybody from reimagining myths, just please know the cultural context and how meaningful it was to the people during the time it was written.

Also, if you come across anything you'd like to add onto or correct me about then please do! I'm always willing to learn! :3

[cg920fire]

Hot(?) take (IDK how controversial this opinion is lol):

I don't really mind the Persephone/Hades ship. My only request is that you don't villainize Demeter in the process, please.

I'm not saying to make Demeter flawless. It's fine to make her overbearing and overprotective of Persephone, but she's gotta be at least a well-meaning parent even if her parenting is flawed. What I'm asking is to not do something like "Oh NoOo My sTuPiD bItCh oF a MoM iSn'T lEtTiNg Me SeE mY hOt, EmO bOyFrIeNd!! 😤 "

After all, the Hymm to Demeter based around a mother's grief for her missing daughter, not Persephone and Hades shagging each other.

[shisasan]

Why is it always "I love you," and never "I want to sink my teeth into your soul, crawl inside your skin, and bury myself in your dark warmth with insatiable hunger, binding our blood in a rhythm so deep with such ferocity that the earth sighs, and not even the cold grasp of death could pull us apart?"

[beemintty]

i was watching a youtube video on the myth of persephone and hades and it pointed out that their story, their relationship and marriage, is one of the most functional and loving in all of the mythos according to the original texts. which i find incredibly comforting because I love their myth it's one of my favourites but sometimes I found myself excusing things that are horrible.

[irunaki]

finally finished :3 could made the background better but im lazy xd

[daiquirishortcake]

Teagan!Persephone, Casper!Hades and Sedona! Cerberus!!

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@imcasperfox

[caseykeshui]

Fortnite Persephone Redesign + Hades 💜💚 . . . I’ve had this drawing sitting around for a while actually, but never really felt like posting it- not until now atleast: on Valentine’s Day especially?!!!1!1 ❤️ I wasn’t gonna pass on this opportunity-

Also, really wanted my own take on Fortnite’s persephone because she needs more of the queen material that she deserves!!! I hope you guys like it! ❤️

[hypfden]

Persephone’s naivete

Obligatory Greek myth au.

Keith knew what it ment to eat the fruit of the underworld he just hoped that the person* in front of him didn’t…

[faunali]

hadestown will always hold a special place in my heart 🥀

[apoljuise]

Exterminators nymphs

[wistfulpoltergeist]

And don't you know that death is a very stable job...

♫Kiki Rockwell - From Persephone♫

[raitnam]

Persephone and Hades

[reds-references]

IT FINALLY HAPPENED!! AHAHAHA!! I give you the long awaited Hades/Persephone set! We didn't have time to do a solo shoot of Hades (Jacob) like you guys voted for way back, but I promise, if you like this set we will revisit these characters!

Hades' Instagram

[shisasan]

Dave Danzara

[darklinaforever]

So ! I need to say that !

Hades & Persephone's relationship is canonically a loving and quite healthy relationship in the context of Greek mythology which represents a form of balance for the world through the cycle of the seasons. Persephone is not a victim of Hades either... Anyone who has studied Greek mythology can actually explain it to you.

That's a bad vision of the original myth due to a too modern interpretation. It's not the modern era that romanticizes this basic relationship. This was already the case in Greek times...

It even seems to me that Hades and Persephone were often represented on the vases given to newlyweds (pretty crazy, since Hera was literally the goddess of marriage) because they were always described as having a loving, supportive and harmonious marriage.

And if you're looking for a real culprit in the union of Hades & Persephone, there's literally Zeus, who authorized the marriage between the two after Hades came to ask him. Hades didn't kidnap Persephone as soon as he saw her. He first asked to his father, Zeus, for her hand in marriage, as in the Greek traditions of the time.

In some versions of the myth, it even seems to me that Aphrodite is the one who provoked Hades' love for Persephone by sending Eros to plant an arrow in her after being upset by a refusal. But for now, I'm not sure of Aphrodite's real involvement.

But regardless, in the original myth, the one blamed is actually very clearly Zeus. He is the one, once again, having authorized the kidnapping of Persephone, which in Greek traditions translates into an engagement, and who has caused the whole messy situation with poor Demeter.

As for the grenade episode, it doesn't seem to me that we can know the original version. So the whole "Hades forced Persephone to eat the pomegranate" thing is also bullshit.

There doesn't even seem to me to be any indication of Persephone having been mistreated in any way by Hades in the myth. It's again bullshit.

I'm making this post because I've had yet another person explain to me that Persephone is a victim of Hades and that our modern age romanticizes the relationship between the two.

"Yes. Like Persephone gets bastardised. Persephone was Hades's assault victim. People try to "modernize" her by making her want Hades (all while making Demeter to be in the wrong). Mina was Dracula's assault victim. People try to "modernize" her by making her cheat on Jonathan for Dracula."

Except no. Persephone is not a victim of Hades in the context of Greek myth. That's a stinking modern vision. Kind of ironic, when you argue that it's the modern view that stands in for the real version of Persephone being a victim of Hades when... well no. It's the modern era that makes Persephone a victim of abuse at the hands of Hades, (this all reminds me of how people make Rhaenyra a victim of grooming in her relationship with Daemon) while that is not the case in the context of the original myth. As I explained above, this interpretation is modern bullshit. And it is very important to transcribe the myths in their ancient context to understand their various messages, otherwise you will miss the point.

But I won't elaborate further because @cthonisprincess has already explained it very well. I invite you to go and see these reblogs below which detail the whole affair of Hades and Persephone in much more detail :

I even recommend this video :

My god, I can't believe that in 2024, people are still at the stage of demonizing Hades, even though he is one of the rare decents gods, and still claiming that Persephone is an assault victim of Hades... This is a shameful distortion of the original myth and a real bastardization of the goddess Persephone.

Also... we're literally talking about a myth. The goal of a myth is to be reinvented according to the times. So what does it matter that there are adaptations of the myth that differ from the said myth, or rather from the biased vision that some have of making Persephone a poor victim of the evil Hades ?!

@aleksanderscult