1. Thefirstgates.com Persephone was kidnapped while picking flowers in a meadow

2. pstevensfhs.wikispaces.com Hades was the kidnapper and took her to the Underworld in a golden chariot to be his new bride.

3. picasaweb.google.com Hades tempted Persephone to stay in the Underworld with food of the dead, which would make her stay.

4. jennellayoung.com Persephone ate 6 seeds of a pomegranate, which made her stay for 6 months in the year.

5. myastrologybook.com Hermes and Demeter arrive in the Underworld to rescue Persephone.

6. epilogue.net Although Persephone had to stay for 6 months a year, the other 6 months were spent repopulating the Earth of plants with her mother Demeter.

7. mlahanas.de Persephone is the Goddess of Spring, and the Goddess of the Underworld. Her sacred birds are the pigeon and the roaster. Persephone is the symbol of death, rebirth, and immortality. Her personal symbol is the pomegranate. Greeks thought that her travel between the Underworld and Earth explained the changing seasons.