THE KIDNAPPING OF PROSERPINE
Rapto de Proserpina por Luca Giordano.
Proserpine was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides. Proserpine was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She was kidnapping by Haides, the god of the underworld.
El rapto de Proserpina. Ulpiano Checa, 1888.
Zeus intervened and tried to bring Proserpine back to the world of the living but she has eaten six seeds and this provocated that Proserpine stayed four months in the underworld and eight months in the world with her mother.
Rossetti, 1874.
The period in the underworld corresponded to the winter season, during which Demeter would make the soils barren due to her grief, while her return marked the start of the spring.
Demeter rejoiced, for her daughter was by her side
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Etruscan terracotta cinerary statue. It represnts Persephone/the deceased woman holding a pomegranate. Feet and hands have been modelled separately. National archeological museum in Palermo, Italy.