Your myth retold #9

I am Demeter the goddess of grain, harvest and fertility in general. I am responsible for making the crops bloom every year. I have one daughter. Her daughters name is  Persephone. She is the goddess of spring. Her father is Zeus. He is the god of the sky and the ruler of Olympian gods. One day I realized something was different. I went to look for her daughter Persephone, but could not find her. I searched day and night. I went all over the world to find my daughter, but still could not find her. Months went by without finding my daughter. I became very depressed. Soon none of the crops grew. I did not feel like making the crops grow every day. I stopped looking and started to give up. But one day I went out on a walk, and found a lead. I found a hole to the underworld. I never have been down to the underworld before. But i was very desperate to find my daughter. So I went down, I was very nervous. I got down there and there and started to walk around. I went to Hades palace. I walked through the front door and found Hades. I asked him if he has see my daughter. He respond. "Yes I have, do you want to see her?". I cant believe he has her. I feel so relieved. He brought her out. I was so happy to see was alive and healthy. It turns out Hades had abducted her and married her. She is no longer mine. I told Hades how depressed I was. So we worked out a deal. I get to see her 4 moths out of the year, while she is with me she is the goddess of spring. But the rest of the 8 months I don't have her she returns back to the underworld and the Queen of the underworld.

Resolution #8

The resolution in my myth is Demeter finally finds her daughter. Demeter and Hades work out an agreement where 4 mouths out of the year Demeter daughter can live with her. The other 8 months her daughter returns to the dark world.

Climax #7

The climax in this story would be when Demeter realized her daughter was gone and did not know what to do. With her daughter gone for months she became depressed. And made all the people suffer for her daughter being gone.

Conflict #6

I think the conflict in this myth is when Demeter's daughter got kidnapped and she could not find her for months. She stop the crops from growing and  everything went dull.

Character development #4

Demeter's daughter is Persephone. She is the goddess of spring time. She is also Hades wife because he abducted her and made her his wife. And soon became the queen of the underworld for six months of each year. With those four months she was the goddess of spring time and lived with her mother and then returned back to the underworld.  The mint and pomegranate are sacred to her. Persephone raised Aphrodite's child Adonis. She was also known as Kore, "the Maiden". She symbolized the sprouting seeds of springtime.She wears light, airy and flowing gowns. 

Myth and Meaning #5

Demeter's relationship with Zeus had not always been so strained: He was the father of her much-loved, white-armed daughter, Persephone. Persephone grew up to be a beautiful young woman who enjoyed playing with the other goddesses on Mt. Aetna, in Sicily. There they gathered and smelled the beautiful flowers. One day, a narcissus caught Persephone's eye, so she plucked it to get a better look, but as she pulled it from the ground, a rift formed. Demeter had not been watching too carefully. After all, her daughter was grown. Besides, Aphrodite, Artemis, and Athena were there to watch -- or so Demeter assumed. When Demeter's attention returned to her daughter, the young maiden (called Kore, which is Greek for 'maiden') had vanished. Aphrodite, Artemis, and Athena didn't know what had happened, it had been so sudden. One moment Persephone was there, and the next she wasn't. Demeter was beside herself with grief. Was her daughter dead? Abducted? What had happened? No one seemed to know. So Demeter roamed the countryside looking for answers. After Demeter had wandered for 9 days and nights, searching for her daughter as well as taking out her frustrations by randomly torching the earth, the 3-faced goddess Hekate told the anguished mother that while she had heard Persephone's cries, she had not been able to see what had happened. So Demeter asked Helios, the sun god -- he had to know since he sees all that happens above the ground during the day. Helios told Demeter that Zeus had given their daughter to "The Invisible" (Hades) for his bride and that Hades, acting on that promise, had taken Persephone home to the Underworld. The imperious king of the gods Zeus had dared to give Demeter's daughter Persephone away to Hades, the dark lord of the Underworld, without asking! Imagine Demeter's outrage at this revelation. When the sun god Helios insinuated that Hades was a good match, it added insult to injury. With Demeter's depression setting in she had set a curse on the earth for crops to die and no longer grow. Soon it was arranged for Persephone to be with her mother for two thirds of the year and return back to the underworld. Demeter removed the curse from the earth and everything could grow healthy and strong.

Symbols #3

This is the symbol of wheat which represents Demeter the god of gain.

This is the symbol for harvest which represents Demeter the god of harvest.

This is the symbol for food which is referenced to my deity Demeter she is the god for grain and harvest.

Summarized myth #2

Demeter is intimately associated with the seasons. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades to be his wife in the underworld. In her anger at her daughter's loss Demeter laid a curse on the world that caused plants to wither and die, the land become desolate. Zeus became alarmed and sought Persephone's return. However, because she had eaten while in the underworld Hades had a claim on her. Therefore, it was decreed that Persephone would spend four months each year in the underworld. During these months Demeter grieves her daughters absence, and withdraws her gifts from the world, creating winter. Her return brought the spring.
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