I was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea who both happened to be Titans. Although I did love my parents, my daughter Persephone meant the world to me. It was my job to make the crops grow each year, and thus why I became the goddess of the earth, agriculture, and of fertility. Everything about the earth was sacred to me, especially the livestock and poppy seed. Because of the work that I did with the seasons, I was intimately invested to the point of my emotions showing with each rain drop that would fall in the soil.
I fell in love with Zeus (the god of the sky), and had my beloved daughter Persephone. She was a beautiful baby, and grew up to be a gorgeous child. She was the light of my life, and I had so many hopes/dreams for her once she…show more content… Persephone was already to go on her walk with me that morning, however I just wasn’t feeling very well. I had very strange dreams the night before, and I couldn’t find the strength to get out of my bed that morning. She begged me to go with her, but I just couldn’t. I told her to go on her own, and to create a story to tell me once she returned…show more content… It wasn’t like her to be gone for this long. I immediately began to regret not going on the walk with her, and now it would be all of my fault if something were to have happened to her. I began to pace the halls of our home, which was now quiet and full of despair. The more hours that went by, the more anxious I became. I wandered around the country side for days which then turned into long tedious nights. It wasn’t until I ran into a woman by the name of Hekate (the three faced goddess) who told me of the screams she had heard. After realizing that she was talking about my daughter, I called upon Helios the Sun God to help me find where she had gone.
Helios, being the all seeing god that he was, relayed back to me that Zeus being the loving father that he was decided to give my daughter to Hades to marry. Not wanting to believe Helios, I scoured the planet for another week in hopes that I could find my beloved daughter. Finally after what seemed to be an eternity, I broke down in grief upon losing Persephone to the