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Humans Are Sscared

Humans are scared of what they don’t understand, and so in a way to try and understand the world around them, humans made up gods. Gods are a simple way of answering any question, and humans all throughout history have made up gods and/or supreme beings such as the Greeks did. The ancient Greeks developed a religion and beliefs about the world that we now call Greek Mythology.

Mythology is a body of myths for a particular culture, and the study and interpretations of such myths. Myths though can be defined as a narrative that through many retellings has become an accepted tradition in a society. By this mythology may include all traditional tales, such as creation of the world and about the gods that rule the world. One such god was Persephone the queen of the under world, married to Hades the god of the under world.

Persephone is the daughter of Demeter (god of agriculture) and Zeus (the king God). She is a very beautiful young girl with pale white skin and blond hair. She is so beautiful that many of the gods wished to have her as their wife. She does not smile much though and is very sorrowful when she is in the underworld with her husband, but she is very happy and joyful when she is on earth with her loving mother Demet


Mythology was a major part of the Greek culture and for many other cultures. Myths are still around today. Ancient mythology is not practiced anymore. The beliefs are still taught throughout the world today, and this paper proves that.

There was one tree though that bore fruit. It was a little pomegranate tree. The caretaker of the garden offered the tempting pomegranates to the queen, but she declined; she could never eat the food of the dead. She walked wordlessly with her new husband and slowly her heart turned cold and she already missed the day when she would dance in the sun with her mother.

Hades raced back down into his dark cold palace were he seated the weeping girl on a throne of black marble. He offered her a substantial amount of crowns and jewels, but the wealth brought her no happiness she wanted to be up on the earth’s surface with the sunshine and flowers. Around Hades’ palace grew several gardens that were home to whispering poplars and weeping willows. There were no flowers and no birds to sing in the branches.

Because Zeus could not let the world perish he was forced into sending Hermes (the messenger god) down to Hades and to tell him of Zeus’s bidding. Because Zeus was the king god he had no other choice but to let his queen go. As soon as Persephone heard of the news she leaped to her feet and started for the surface with Hermese. As they were leaving though the gardener pointed out to Hades that lost in joy Persephone had eaten the pomegranate. Hades grinned. He knew that his bride had to return because no one who ate the food of t

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