Persephone was the ancient greek goddess of spring and the queen of the underworld. She was depicted as a stately woman holding a torch. Her roman name was proserpina.

The myth of persephone is a prime example of the Ò€œmyth of the eternal return. Ò€ where Ò€¦ Persephone, the daughter of demeter and zeus, was the wife of hades and the queen of the underworld. She was a dual deity, since, in addition to presiding over the dead with intriguing Ò€¦ Persephone, as a vegetation goddess, and her mother demeter were the central figures of the eleusinian mysteries, which promised the initiated a happy afterlife. The origins of her cult are Ò€¦

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