One moment she had been right there the next she had vanished into thin air.ĭemeter cried out, but no one answered. But when she turned around, Persephone was gone. The poor goddess wept and wept, so Hades locked her away.īack on Earth, Demeter may have heard her daughter's cries – no one knows for sure. She must have screamed, but no one came to rescue her, and so she was swept away to the underworld, where Hades begged her to be his bride. With no one watching over Persephone, Hades was free to grab the goddess. And what he found took his breath away: There was the beautiful young goddess staring at the narcissus. When Hades spotted the rift in the Earth, he rode his chariot to see what he could find. It so happened that Hades, the gloomy, dark god who took care of the underworld, had gone out early that morning in his chariot with his three-headed dog, Cerberus. But that day the goddesses were distracted, and so there was no one watching over her as Persephone took that flower.
Now, ordinarily, the goddesses Aphrodite, Artemis and Athena watched over Persephone. Alas, as she did, she created a rift in the Earth. Without thinking, she plucked it from the dirt. One early spring day, a narcissus caught the young goddess's eye.
Hades aphrodite locked heart full#
When Demeter's heart was full and glad, everything on Earth blossomed.Īs the years passed, Persephone grew more and more lovely. Whenever Persephone smiled, Demeter's heart swelled with joy.
Mother and daughter played in the fields of flowers on Mount Aetna in Sicily. Long, long ago, nothing made Demeter happier than her daughter, Persephone. And so it is important – no, more than that, it is vital – that Demeter remain happy.
When crops wither and die, people starve. When Demeter is sad, crops do not thrive. Adapted by Amy Friedman and illustrated by Meredith Johnsonĭemeter, goddess of grain and Earth, cares for the harvest.
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