The Story of Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds

Mavong's blessing! We like to tell this story on the night of Mabon gathered around the fire. When the story is over, there is pomegranate to show. Open pomegranate to show seeds inside.

There was a cute girl named Persephone. Her mother is a growing goddess Demet. Demeter and her daughter live in the summer world. Green ones are always blooming, sunny, warm and sweet

One day, when she went out with a friend, Persephone was trembling under her accomplishment and heard that fuss. The ground fractured, the underground world, the underworld world seemed to be driving a tank. He snatched Persephone and brought her back to the land. The ground is again filled with a big roaring sound, and the remaining Persephone has many flowers blooming on the ground.

Demeter looked everywhere, but she could not find her daughter. From a few days to a few days she was looking for a Persephone. Her sorrow is so big that the earth begins to get cold and all the green ones are dead. Without food, people will also suffer severe hunger

At the same time, in the underworld, Persephone saw that Hades was not as bad as she originally imagined. He was very lonely in the underground world, he told her he was enthusiastic about being with her.

Persephone missed a mother and a bright world. But her new status as the Queen of Underworld and her affection for Hades gave her why she is with him. She believes she is doing important work to do underground

Persephone knows that if you eat or drink something in the underground world you must stay there forever. Hades insisted that she had only a bite or bite, but she did not

Demeter finally knows the position of Persephone. She insisted that she would come back. Sadly Hades bound the horse to the carriage and was ready to take Persephone back. But before his departure, his last thing was to provide Persephone, matured bloodlike pomegranate. Looking at his eyes, Persephone took six seeds and ate them.

They returned to the ground and passed through the cracks on the ground. Persephone is fully dedicated to the mother's arm and a happy reunion. The earth is once again enriched with flowers, the sun shines again

But since Persephone is already eating six pomegranate seeds she decides to return to the underworld at Mabu's Hades in the six months of that year and will come to the world in winter. In spring, she returns to her mother again and makes the earth bloom.

Pomegranate is another obsession after divorce. I was drawn to Greek mythology when I was a child, and I read about the story that Persephone eaten the pomegranate seeds and was trapped in Hades many times for six months. After discovering the delicious recipes of Half Baked Harvest, many of them are gems of gems. Perhaps, like every spring, we started cooking a lot with pomegranate to honor Persephone to escape from your hell. I like to cut them in half and hit them with wooden spoons until sweet seeds overlap the glass bowl like rubies. When I want to make dinner for the person I am dating, I will bring chick peas, feta cheese and honey chicken with jewels. This is a good choice of cooking, a test to see if he deserves my time and attention: a bit spicy, international mix, a little flashy, a good means for throwing red peppers

In another version of this story, Persephone quietly picked some fruits from the Hades Garden tree. In order to resist her terrible hunger she secretly ate seven pomegranate seeds. But Hades' gardener saw her and annoyed Hades with her. Persephone changed to an owl shouting him, as his rash act punishes him, or Demeter buried him in a huge rock to punish him. Rhea - Zeus, Demeter, and Hades' mother - proposed a compromise and her children reluctantly accepted. As Persephone was eating there, she should live in at least a part of the underground world every year. Rhea encourages Persephone to spend six months (or possibly three or four months) as a basement queen, or as a Demeter of another year.