Persephone - Greek Mythology

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Persephone is a goddess associated with nature and death. She was worshipped throughout Greece and had distinct local cults on the mainland, Greek islands, and what is now Turkey and Italy. Persephone or Kore "Maiden" as she is also called, was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. The myth of her abduction by Hades explains how she became Queen of the Underworld.