He was so captivated by her beauty that he took her by force to the underworld. Such an oath, then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primeval water of Styx to be: and it spouts through a rugged place. Persephone was picking flowers one day when Hades saw her. But in the tenth year he comes again to join the assemblies of the deathless gods who live in the house of Olympus.
#PERSEPHONE AND HADES FULL#
For nine years he is cut off from the eternal gods and never joins their councils or their feasts, nine full years. But when he has spent a long year in his sickness,Īnother penance more hard follows after the first.
#PERSEPHONE AND HADES SERIES#
Must lie breathless until a full year is completed, and never come near to taste ambrosia and nectar, but lie spiritless and voiceless on a strewn bed: and a heavy trance overshadows him. Read Hades and Persephone and other gods ficlets Now Digital comics on WEBTOON, This series includes fan-fiction short stories about the famous couple in. For whoever of the deathless gods that hold the peaks of snowy Olympus pours a libation of her water and is forsworn, Hi everybody, and welcome to a new Top Ten Tuesday Today I wanted to talk about books based on the Greek Myth of Hades and Persephone. With nine silver-swirling streams he winds about the earth and the sea's wide back, and then falls into the main 2 but the tenth flows out from a rock, a sore trouble to the gods. Far under the wide-pathed earth a branch of Oceanus flows through the dark night out of the holy stream, and a tenth part of his water is allotted to her. But when strife and quarrel arise among the deathless gods, and when any one of them who live in the house of Olympus lies, then Zeus sends Iris to bring in a golden jug the great oath of the godsįrom far away, the famous cold water which trickles down from a high and beetling rock. Rarely does the daughter of Thaumas, swift-footed Iris, come to her with a message over the sea's wide back. She lives apart from the gods in her glorious house vaulted over with great rocks and propped up to heaven all round with silver pillars. On those who go in he fawns with his tail and both his ears, but suffers them not to go out back again, but keeps watch and devours whomever he catches going out of the gates of strong Hades and awful Persephone.Īnd there dwells the goddess loathed by the deathless gods, terrible Styx, eldest daughter of backflowing 1Ocean. Hades came up from the depths of hell in his chariot and snatched Persephone, taking her back down to the underworld and forcing her to be his wife. A fearful hound guards the house in front, The Story of Hades and Persephone According to Greek mythology, Persephone was the beautiful young daughter of Demeter, the goddess of grain. There, in front, stand the echoing halls of the god of the lower-world, strong Hades, and of awful Persephone. The Hades and Persephone story illustrated not only marriage, but also the complex relationship between life and death in the ancient world. Personal illustration based on the myth of The God of the Underworld and Goddess of Springtime.
0 kommentar(er)
