Persephone.
The myth of Persephone tells of a lost girl whose story belongs to all times and to all cultures. In each of her many stories she is tricked, or washed away, or dragged into the darkness of the earth. The only constant is her sacrifice and her ability to make a home out of her fate. Many myths have an obscure origin, but The Persephone myth appears to be one of the easier kinds of myth to unravel as it is so clearly a kind of pre-science explanation for the changing seasons. But to assume that this is all the story is about would be to mistake one thread for the whole rope. Many myths contain fragments of history retold as story, the edges of folk tales and legends blurring into older dreams and memories until they become something more; tales of kings sons left to die on mountain tops rescued by kind hearted shepherds and latter inadvertently bringing death and despair to a kingdom, the fleet of ships unable to sail to Troy until king Agamemnon sacrifices his own daughter. I...
