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(also Persephassa; in Latin Proserpina) In Greek myth, the daughter of → Zeus, and wife of → Hades, who abducted her as a small girl (hence her name of Kore).
Thereafter, she spends onethird of the year in the underworld (during this time the plants wither) and two-thirds of the year with her mother, the earthgoddess → Demeter. Both Demeter and Persephone were venerated as goddesses of vegetation, and their myth was solemnly enacted in the Eleusinian mysteries. The plants consecrated to Persephone are the ear of corn and the pomegranate.
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