The story goes that one day Persephone was collecting flowers in the fields of Nysa, when she was kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld, where Hades makes her his wife.

Just a reminder Hades is the brother of Zeus and therefore technically Persephone's uncle. After discovering her daughter had been taken, Demeter became so unconcerned with the world's harvest ...

In ancient myth, the union of Hades and Persephone in the Underworld was said to cause the changing of the seasons. Evelyn De Morgan, Demeter Mourning for Persephone,1906. Wikimedia Commons ...

Instead she must spend one third of the year in the underworld with Hades, and the rest of the year on Earth with her beloved mother. It was then believed the months of the year she spent in the ...