Queen of the Dead part 2, 33

How and why Persephone would eat the pomegranate seeds in my version was something I was not sure about for a long time. In The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the earliest most detailed account of the myth, Hades secretly gives Persephone the seeds before she is about to leave, to make sure that she will come back to him. "When Persephone tells her mother of these events, she adds the detail that Hades forced her to eat the seeds. It is unclear whether this is a matter of the perspectives of different narrators or if this is a face-saving device on Persephone's part" (Ormand, The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece, 2014).

In The Bibliotecha, a compendium of Greek myths and legends dated to the first or second century CE, it says that Persephone was given the seeds by Hades and ate them without full knowledge of what it meant. Ascalaphus then bore witness against her and Demeter punished him by pinning him down with a heavy rock.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses Proserpine picked and ate the seeds herself when she thought she was alone in the orchard. Once again Ascalaphus bore witness against her and in this version he is punished by Proserpine who turned him into an owl.

In my comic Persephone already knows that she will be bound to the Underworld if she eats the seeds, so she can't be tricked. And if Hades force her, their chances of having a somewhat good relationship is pretty much fucked. That left me with Persephone eating them in secret for some reason.

Persephone of Spring

Persephone - Queen of the Underworld -

Fanart of Persephone in "Lore Olympus" webcomic Book by Rachel Smythe ₊˚⊹♡

The art of this book is so delicate, I love the characters designs ♡

Orpheus, Eurydice, Persephone, and Hades in my style

Hey,

Do you have any Updates to the 4th Book of Hades and Persephone? I am sooo excited for this Book❤️

I am too! I think The Ineffable Seeds is going to be a pretty damn good yarn but like all my books it’s takes a while to drop 125k words onto a page.

I’m currently working on it, and mapping out the middle end of the story. It’s a book where I know where it starts and where it ends, but would kick myself if I left any mythological threads loose or stones unturned that deserve to be upended.

Meanwhile,

A lot of my available writing time has gone into screenwriting, a new venture for me, because a pilot script for Receiver of Many has been demanded and I really frickin’ broke myself on the wheel this last month making sure it was what I wanted to see on screen and had enough back story from the Titanomachy to round out the original prologue I wrote.

So! Things are moving quickly on that front, the TV Show is in development, should be in preproduction by the beginning of next year, and I’ll have a lot more concrete updates shortly.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Persephone feeds Hades his veggies

“ 𝘪𝘧 𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶...𝘪 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳. ”

Hades and Persephone

From November 2019

A Mother’s Greatest Fear.

In my au, Persephone raised Adonis from infancy and unlike in the myths, their relationship here is strictly parent-child. This takes place after he’s killed by a boar that was sent by Apollo and he finally meets his mother again but this time as a shade.

Eris, hestia, hermes, persephone, and Hepheastus designs!

Please forgive some of the messy water color lol

"Would you peel an orange for me?"

I would peel a pomegranate for you.

can persephone please catch a break cuz that’s twice now she hasn’t been able to raise her kids due to divine fuckery 🫠

my cringe fail daughter who tried to jump from the windowsill to my computer desk and missed

Game recognize game

Hades and Persephone

Recent commission! The details on this one were crazy fun to paint, I spent a lot of time on it but I'm really happy with the result :)

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