Demeter and Persephone

Main Characters:
Demeter is the goddess of corn and agriculture. Her moods affect the seasons and she is also Persephone
Persephone is the goddess of spring and is the Queen of the Underworld. She is the daughter of Demeter. She spends half the year in the Underworld and the other half on Earth.
Hades is the lord of the Underworld and ruler of the dead. Hades is the one who kidnapped Persephone to become his beloved bride.
Zeus is the supreme ruler of all gods and is the one who arranged Persephone's kidnap and to become Hades' wife

                      

Settings:
Took time around 1200-1000BC
Nysian Valley where Persephone got kidnapped
Eleusis where Demeter's temple was located at
Mountain Olympus and the Underworld
  
Main Plot:
While Demeter and Persephone were on a walk at Nysian Valley Persephone gets kidnapped by Hades. Zeus arranged this to event for Persephone to become Hades' beloved bride. Demeter becomes very mellow of this that plants/agriculture start to die and due to this people die too. Hades made Persephone eat pomegranate seeds so she will return and stay with him forever. For 6 months Persephone will stay in the Underworld and the other 6 months she will stay with her mother.



Main Conflict:
This is an external conflict because Demeter is angry at Zeus for giving her own daughter away to Hades. Demeter wants her daughter back but Hades wants Persephone too. With this said Demeter allows plants/agriculture to die and people start to starve. Zeus orders Hades to allow Persephone to see her mother. Hades wants Persephone so he makes her eat pomegranate seeds so she will return
and not stay on Earth forever.


Attempts to Explain:
This myth attempts to explain how the changing of seasons came about. With Hades making Persephone eat pomegranate seeds half of the year is with him and the other half is with Demeter. So when Persephone is in the Underworld Demeter gets depressed and refuses to let anything grow which turn out to be the fall and winter seasons. And when Persephone returns to Demeter she is happy so the spring and summer seasons flourish.