The Myth of Seasons
One sunny day in ancient Greece, young Persephone gathers flowers in a meadow. Her mother Demeter, goddess of harvest, watches over the land.
Suddenly, the ground trembles! A magnificent chariot emerges from a crack in the earth. Hades, lord of the Underworld, reaches out his hand.
Hades brings you to his glittering underground kingdom. Though dark, it's filled with riches and strange beauty.
He offers you six pomegranate seeds. Eating food of the Underworld would bind you here forever, but perhaps just a few seeds...
Meanwhile, Demeter searches desperately for her daughter. In her grief, she neglects the harvests. Crops fail, and winter spreads across the land.
Zeus intervenes and negotiates a compromise with Hades based on how many seeds you ate:
And so it was decided: For each pomegranate seed eaten, Persephone would spend one month in the Underworld as its queen.
During these months, Demeter mourns and winter reigns. When Persephone returns, spring blossoms across the land.
This became the cycle of the seasons.