#persephone greek mythology

[sarafangirlart]

I don’t understand the urge to completely remove the kidnapping from Persephone’s story, if anything it’s what makes her relationship with Hades so interesting and complex, he kidnapped her, but he also treats her like an equal, listens to her wisdom, doesn’t get in the way of her decisions as queen, compare and contrast that to Zeus and Hera who were said to be lovers before they got married only for their marriage to be absolutely chaotic and toxic. The dichotomy of the beginning of these relationships vs what comes after is very interesting to explore.

[666-s8ndevotee-666]

Offerings for persephone

-pomegranate (seed, candy,)

-jewelry

-coffin items

-almond, vanilla, bergamot, pomegranate, floral perfume

-lillie, poppy, rose or any wild/spring flowers

-animal bones

-crushed mint

-dark chocolate

-artwork

-poetry

-bat, ram, deer items

-seeds

-wheat or grain

-frankincense, vanilla, or any sweet and floral incense

-honey/honey wine

-bells

-plants and poisonous plants

-love items

-brambles

-music

-bee items and plants that attract bees

-amethyst, onyx, obsidian, topaz, cintrine, pink tourmaline, peridot, green tourmaline, dioptase, ruby, rose quartz, jasper, rhodonite

-black, green, blue, purple, magenta, yellow candles

-olive oil

-fruit

-herbal or floral tea

-bread

-milk

-torch items

-scepter items

-doe items

-poplar/willow bark/leaves

[spiritthemoron]

Something a little different from my other hazbin stuff- one of my favorite things to do is design fun designs for the Greek gods, are they lore accurate-no but they’re fun!

Here are the designs for Persephone, Hera, and Amphridite!

For Persephone I wanted to base her off a flower because of the goddess of spring stuff and I finally settled on a cherry blossom theme, because I find them very pretty!

Hera I made like a regal deep blue and had gold to accent it, you can’t really see it in this drawing but her crown has a trail of golden peacock feathers.

And Amphridite is an ocean nymph so I wanted a more physical difference between her and the other two so I’ve kinda just dictated that nymph have these downward turned ears, for her they’re fish like.

[cotton-candy-anon]

Basically what happened right?

Demeter: Hades no you can't marry my daughter.

Hades: If not wife then why wife shaped?

Zeus: Wife shaped

[Later]

Demeter: Persephone no you can't marry Hades.

Persephone: IF NOT HUSBAND THEN WHY HUSBAND SHAPED!?!?

Demeter: I SAID NO YOUNG LADY

Persephone: FUCK YOU MOM I DO WHAT I WANT

[anime-villian-irl]

Guys um

Am I supposed to be doing more with the gods?

Cause like I give them offerings I have a established alter for them all of my offerings are personalized for them and what I know about them , I pray to them when I can and I only occasionally ask for favors. I try my best not to offend them or judge them for their decisions.

But like people keep describing their experiences with the gods and like having a personal relationship with them and like talking to them and stuff and I'm just like "should I be doing more???" Cause that seems way more different than what's going on with me.

[theleftchickennugget]

Persephone: An apple a day keeps Apollo away :)

Hades: And a pomegranate a day will keep your mother away

[newrealityworld]

Inktober day 6: Persephone Queen of the Underworld

[mai-marybel]

Oh so when Persephone punishes her husband's lover by turning her into a plant it's "a feminist girlboss move" but when I, HERA-

[iwanttobepersephone]

Tell me about persephone accidentally getting the title of spring-bringer (if you want, ofc) now I'm curious

OOOOOO YES YES YES

So, it's a fairly simple concept, all things considered. Buut, I'll still explain it! I assume you know the story, but I'm summarizing anyways

So, Persephone is hanging out in a flower field, and Hades springs up from the ground and takes her to be his wife. We later find out that Zeus, Persephone's father (I think? That's actually a part I'm not sure one) had told Hades to kidnap her. Demeter gets reeeaaaallyyy sad about this and stops letting anything grow. So, the world falls into ruin as crop after crop fails. Eventually, Hermes goes down into the underworld and says "Hey Hades idk if you noticed this but there's a lotta people dying. Like a lot. You think Perse can come up for a quick visit?" And he agrees and Persephone promises to come back. Hades gets anxious however and has her eat 6 pomegranate seeds, which binds her to the underworld. She comes back and Demeter gets so happy to have her daughter back that she starts letting things grow again

This myth, as you may have guessed, handles the passing of the seasons. Fall and winter are when Persephone is in the underworld, spring and summer are when she's in the mortal realm. But, if you noticed, Persephone isn't actually the one bringing spring. It's Demeter. Demeter is the one who let's things grow again, Persephone is just the reason. Actually, throughout all the myths, Persephone is never really given a deification.

BUT!

We know that Persephone existed before ancient Greece, in Mycenaean Greece, because we have found her name in linear b writings. I can't recall exactly why at the moment, but it is commonly believed that Persephone actually used to be a fertility goddess! And this is shown in her central myth in a really fun way, because pomegranates very often symbolize, you guessed it, fertility!! I just think it's really neat how, even when Persephone lost her domain, it still followed her a little bit

[m1dori-eyes]

Imagine this and also a dilf twink goth peggable failure malewife

[sarafangirlart]

Do you have any sketch for Persephone and/or Hecate?

There’s this old sketch of Persephone before the kidnapping.

[faer1etale]

I feel like an interesting (and potentially comedic) perspective to view of the abduction of Persephone would be Styx's, like imagine you're finally able to take a break from your job in the gloomy underworld and hangout with your sisters and their flower-goddess friend, and then your boss and basically equal(somewhat?) swoops in and kidnaps said flower-goddess friend, keep in mind that the kidnapper also abducted your sister, who died in the underworld, and then was transformed into a plant by him. We don't know how long Persephone's stay in the underworld was but we can estimate the same amount of months that winter comes? (Apologies if I'm wording this weirdly) So maybe Styx pitied her and basically became a secondary mother-like figure, it's possible, and to add to that fact Apollodorus states that Persephone is the daughter of Styx and Zeus. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 13 "Styx bore him [Zeus] Persephone"

[asmodeus-682]

I made a magical girl outfit inspired by Persephone bc why not

[randomboiplush]

random thought I had but what if different greek gods get uncomfortable around different things(or lack of things) that have to do with their area they represent(my first idea on this was dionysus being uncomfortable with silence and it feeling like way more then most people)

Soo here is a list of what I currently have ideas for(and how they handle it) if whoever sees this wants to add ideas just send it to my asks(if they are blank that means I don't have ideas, also you can offer ideas for God's that already have stuff written)

---IDEAS---

Zeus- loss of control, being the king of the gods and all, and he tends to hide his weak points that he has from most people other then those closest to him(like hera despite the one time she tried to overthrow him)

Hera-

Poseidon-

Demeter-

Athena- people being idiotic, I also feel like she shares the lack of fighting slightly with ares, not as much but still does and it can be both physical and mental like arguments, the way she deals with people being idiotic is that she corrects them, or just leaves, and the fighting one is mainly sparing.

Apollo- no music, handles this by playing an instrument or quietly humming(will be as quiet as possible for artemis).

Artemis- To much noise, she either shushes people, or just leaves...she doesn't go where dionysus is half the time because of this, but she puts up with apollo humming.

Ares- lack of fighting(sparing, war and stuff like that) I feel like he can handle it well for short periods of time, but I feel like he handles it through sparing.

Hephaestus-

Aphrodite- lack of love, I feel like she most of the time has to just walk away from the senario, or go to someone she loves and talk to them and get shown it.

Hermes- Being still, I feel like he taps his fingers or bounces his leg and stuff like that.

Dionysus- Silence, the way he handles this is talking a lot and just being overly loud or heck, even listening to apollo play music if he can.

Hades-

Persephone-

[starfanatic]

Persephone/Hades. Heheheheh.

Okay um, before I explain ALL MY HXP MOOTS I LOVE YALL SO MUCH YOU ARE VERY DEAR TO ME BUT!!!

I don’t like it. I think they’re very overrated and I’m sick of seeing them. Not only do I not see the appeal but I think other couples are easily more interesting and entertaining. Like seriously. They’re fine seperate, it’s when they get together that I get bored.

It probably doesn’t help that I hate Lore Olympus… or any retelling of HxP…

[ilmaris]

Persephone - Lady of the Underworld

In Greek mythology, the wife of Hades, ruler of the underworld, protector of the souls of the dead and goddess of sprouting grain, also known as Kora. She was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. She was kidnapped by Hades while she and her companions were playing in a meadow. When she tried to pick a beautiful narcissus flower, the earth opened and Hades appeared on a golden chariot, carrying her away to his kingdom. Her attributes were poppy seeds and pomegranates.