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The Abduction of Persephone by Hades was painted by Ulpiano Checa (1860 – 1916).


The story of Persephone's abduction by Hades is described in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

This is the story in short:

Hades, the god of the underworld fell in love with beautiful Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter. He asked his brother Zeus for permission to marry her and Zeus agreed. But knowing that Demeter would not agree to the marriage, Zeus permitted Hades to abduct Persephone. So one day while she was gathering flowers with her friends, Hades burst out of the ground in his chariot, snatched Persephone and took her into the underworld...

Demeter, when she found her daughter had disappeared, disguised herself as an old woman and with lighted torches in her hands roamed the Earth looking for her daughter. In the depth of her despair, she forbade the earth to produce fruit (or she neglects the earth which results in nothing growing).

Finally, Demeter met Hekate, the old Witch. Hekate took pity on Demeter and told her to seek help from the all seeing Helios, the sun god. She did and Helios told Demeter all about how Hades had dragged Persephone into the underworld.

Persephone’s mother, Demeter, then begged her brother Hades to allow Persephone to come back to the world of the living, saying that the young Persephone was not supposed to live in the world of the dead. Hades first ignored her pleadings. But finally Zeus intervened and forced Hades to let Persephone leave. He did that because he was pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the complaints of other deities, who because of the famine, weren't getting their sacrifices...

Hades complied with Zeus's order. But first he tricked Persephone, giving her some pomegranate seeds to eat. And because she had tasted food in the underworld, she was obliged to spend a third of each year (the winter months) there, and the remaining part of the year with the gods above.
arrival of the "winter Zeus", "thunder god who rides in a chariot pulled by ibex goats". This Zeus arrives at the end of October - beginning of November, at the beginning of the mating season of Cretan Ibex Goats and brings with him the winter rains. I believe he is also the one who "kidnaps Persephone" and takes her to the "land of the dead" aka winter. That this is not just me inventing crap, Persephone and Demeter were in Eastern Mediterranean, the area where climate is the same as it is in Crete, always linked with Zeus-Eubuleus which apparently "is an euphemistic name of Hades, Chthonian Zeus".

As we have seen, Hades, the lord of the underworld, was by Greeks associated with winter, as Persephone's time in the underworld was equated with winter. So if Hades is the Chthonian Zeus he is indeed also the Winter Zeus.

Which explains a very curious thing that Hades was also Pluto, the god of wealth.

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