Hades fell in love with Persephone, and with Zeus’ help secretly kidnapped her.
Demeter roamed the earth over in search of her, by day and by night with torches.
When she learned from the Hermionians that Hades had kidnapped her, enraged at
the gods she left the sky, and in the likeness of a woman made her way to Eleusis …
When Zeus commanded Hades to send Persephone back up,
Hades gave her a pomegranate seed to eat, as assurance that she would not remain
long with her mother. With no foreknowledge of the outcome of her act, she consumed it.
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