Demeter, Goddess Of Persephone

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Once a longtime ago, there lived Demeter, Goddess of harvest. One day, she was in her field harvesting some wheat to give to Zeus as a gift for trying to save her beloved daughter, Persephone, from Hades. As she was harvesting the wheat, she was crying because her daughter, Persephone, had to spend another seven months with Hades. One of her tears happened to fall into the soil and something strange happened; everything was quiet. The leaves on the trees stopped rattling; everything was still. All of a sudden, the ground started to tremble and outgrew an enormous pumpkin about the size of a 100-years-old tree. Demeter was shocked and curious of what was in the pumpkin. The pumpkin cracked in half and in front of Demeter stood a full grown girl about the age of Persephone. The girl had soft golden skin and the most beautiful blue eyes. Her lushes brown hair was put into a side braid that hung over her …show more content…
The old man asked with a weak voice “Do you have some food?” Charistia smiled and with a twirl of her finger, a piece of bread appeared onto the old man’s hand.” Thank you so much my dear” said the main grinning.” How did you do that?” asked Demeter surprisingly. ”Oh, you mean to give the man food? Well, that is one of my powers. I can also bless people’s food, so they will get good nutrients from the meal and won’t get sick.” said Charistia. Demeter smiled and told her” You have beautiful powers.” Charistia replied, “Thank you”. “There is something I have to tell you” said Charistia nervously. “What is it?” said Demeter. “You do know that when your daughter Persephone comes back I go back underground till your daughter is sent away for another seven more months.” Charistia said. “That is okay” said Demeter sadly. “I’m just glad that I could welcome a new daughter” said Demeter hugging Charistia. From that time on, every time Persephone went with Hades, she would be reunited with her daughter

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