One day, when he saw Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, picking flowers in Nysa, he fell in love instantly with her. Because of his obsessive lust for her, he kidnapped her and made her his queen.
When Demeter, the goddess of fertility, found out what happened to her daughter, she grieved and felt lonely. Zeus, god of the heavens, found out what Hades, his brother, has just done. He asked him, through Hermes to bring his daughter back to them. But before he agreed, he secretly gave her pomegranate seeds to eat to make her bound of the underworld.
Because of this, Zeus proposed a compromise: Persephone would spend one-third of the year with Hades and the rest of the year with her mother. It is said that during this time that winter falls on earth, showing that Demeter had left her responsibilities because of grief and sharing with earth her sadness and mourning...
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