How would you feel if you were taken away from your mother, forced to live in a dark, shadowy realm beneath the earth where the souls of the dead reside with your “technically” uncle. I’m interviewing a woman who this happened to. Persephone, goddess of spring, agriculture, unwilling wife of Hades, taken as a teenager or in her early twenties, will be answering some questions.

Q: How did your abduction affect your family?

A: Well, it affected my mother really hard. She wouldn’t go out to help her crops, which is very important since she is the goddess of harvest. She went away for so long that it became so cold that the crops died, leaving the mortals starving.

Q: How did you get your mother to come back to care of the crops?

A: Hades would allow me to visit my mother in the overworld to keep her happy and take care of her crops. When I’m not visiting she goes away and it gets cold.

Q: What are the best parts of living with Hades?

A: Getting to know him and just being there it’s a nice routine we’ve built. He mostly takes care of his business and I get to take care of the souls of the dead making sure they get to their rightful place overall making down there a less scary place if it’s possible. 

Q: What is the worst part of living with Hades?

A: Just knowing I can’t go back to living with my mother, her being alone and sad when I’m not there and just living with the god of death, also him being my uncle. 

Q: How do you feel having a father as powerful and feared as Zesus, knowing how he’s had multiple mistresses.

A: I haven’t really talked to my father after being here for a while. I just never had the time for his mistress I’ve never had a close bond with any of them or even formally met them just heard about them.

Q: How did the pomegranate better your relationship with Hades?

A: I felt grateful for it. He allowed me more freedom, so I was thankful for his kindness, which in return made me love him more. I don’t reject eating those six pomegranate seeds. 

Q: You yourself are quite powerful. Knowing how people depend on you for life and food how’s that?

A: Knowing that every time I go to the underworld it’s winter in the mortal world hurts me to know those people no longer have the natural source of food. It feels good when people cheer and celebrate when I come back from the underworld along with the flowers and crops is the best feeling.  

That was my interview with Persephone. I hope you got to know the POV of someone who lives with the god of death and lives in the underworld. 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Persephone-Greek-goddess