![]() Angered and heartbroken, Demeter stopped caring for the Earth, so the land didn't flourish anymore and people began to starve and die. Hecate, goddess of magic, told Demeter she had heard Persephone scream when she was being kidnapped. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter searched everywhere for her lost daughter. One day, Persephone was picking flowers with some of her nymphs in a field in Enna when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. He asked for help from Zeus, despite his estrangement with his brother. One day, he spotted her in the fields and became entranced by her beauty. Persephone's uncle, Hades, was very lonely and wanted a wife. Despite this, she said that Persephone could have married the god of doctors. When she reached marriageable age, several gods tried to woo Persephone, but Demeter, who suffered many horrible courtships, rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of other deities. She mostly passed her days planting seeds and nurturing the flora. As she wasn't one of her father's favorite children, she had no position at Olympus and used to live far away with her mother's closest nymphs. Persephone was born to Zeus, king of the gods, and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. ![]() 4 The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure.Such an oath, then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primeval water of Styx to be: and it spouts through a rugged place. But in the tenth year he comes again to join the assemblies of the deathless gods who live in the house of Olympus. For nine years he is cut off from the eternal gods and never joins their councils or their feasts, nine full years. But when he has spent a long year in his sickness,Īnother penance more hard follows after the first. Must lie breathless until a full year is completed, and never come near to taste ambrosia and nectar, but lie spiritless and voiceless on a strewn bed: and a heavy trance overshadows him. For whoever of the deathless gods that hold the peaks of snowy Olympus pours a libation of her water and is forsworn, With nine silver-swirling streams he winds about the earth and the sea's wide back, and then falls into the main 2 but the tenth flows out from a rock, a sore trouble to the gods. Far under the wide-pathed earth a branch of Oceanus flows through the dark night out of the holy stream, and a tenth part of his water is allotted to her. But when strife and quarrel arise among the deathless gods, and when any one of them who live in the house of Olympus lies, then Zeus sends Iris to bring in a golden jug the great oath of the godsįrom far away, the famous cold water which trickles down from a high and beetling rock. Rarely does the daughter of Thaumas, swift-footed Iris, come to her with a message over the sea's wide back. ![]() She lives apart from the gods in her glorious house vaulted over with great rocks and propped up to heaven all round with silver pillars. On those who go in he fawns with his tail and both his ears, but suffers them not to go out back again, but keeps watch and devours whomever he catches going out of the gates of strong Hades and awful Persephone.Īnd there dwells the goddess loathed by the deathless gods, terrible Styx, eldest daughter of backflowing 1Ocean. A fearful hound guards the house in front, There, in front, stand the echoing halls of the god of the lower-world, strong Hades, and of awful Persephone. ![]()
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