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According to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa. Her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades to be his wife, as is stated in the first lines of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

In protest of his act of violence, Demeter cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine in Ancient Greece; despite the gods requesting that she lift it, lest mankind perish and cause the gods to be deprived of their receiving gifts and sacrifices, Demeter declared that the earth would remain barren until she saw her beloved daughter again.

Zeus then sends for his son, Hermes, and instructs him to go down to the Underworld in hopes that he may be able to convince Hades to allow Persephone to return to Earth, so that Demeter might see her daughter once again and cause the famine to stop.

Hermes relays Zeus’ message, and Hades complies, saying,

“Go now, Persephone, to your dark-robed mother, go, and feel kindly in your heart towards me: be not so exceedingly cast down; for I shall be no unfitting husband for you among the deathless gods, that am own brother to father Zeus. And while you are here, you shall rule all that lives and moves and shall have the greatest rights among the deathless gods: those who defraud you and do not appease your power with offerings, reverently performing rites and paying fit gifts, shall be punished for evermore.”

Zeus, however, had previously proposed a compromise, to which all parties had agreed: of the year, Persephone would spend one third with her husband. It is during this time, when Persephone is down in the Underworld with her husband, that winter falls upon the earth, “an aspect of sadness and mourning.”

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