Journey of the Classical Hero in Demeter and Persephone

Eons ago, the Earth passed its days with unceasing good weather and harvest. This was the world where Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, knew true happiness. Together, the two goddesses of nature roamed the Earth. And in those days, the world seemed like a boundless paradise with all life in perpetual full bloom. Demeter was the gentle, forgiving goddess of the grain and the harvest. As an infant she was swallowed alive, along with her older siblings, by her father, Cronus. Her youngest brother, Zeus, eventually defeated Cronus and liberated his kin. Being a granddaughter of the primordial Mother Earth, Demeter was an Olympian goddess. But, unlike other Olympian deities, she preferred the open fields and lush forests to the palace of the gods atop Mount Olympus. Demeter had a kind, motherly spirit, and nothing would ever break the bond of love she shared with her daughter.…