The Hero's Journey of Persephone by Otto, Angie, Vitoria, Matt

Summary

Persephone gets kidnapped by Hades to become his wife and while in the

underworld she realizes that theres need to be a balance of life and death for the

world to function. When Demeter rescues her she eats four pomegranate seeds

causing her to stay in the underworld for four months....and that is why we have

four seasons.

CONTEXT

The story is based on greek mythology. Persephone was the goddess of flowers in spring. and Demeter is the Goddess of Earth, agriculture and fertility. Hades

is the God of the Underworld. Ik

Transformation

Persephone transforms from a sweet girl used to sunshine and spring to an mature wife in the

Underworld

"Demeter looked at her daughter and so not the child she had lost, but a young woman who had tasted the

fruit of both life and death."

Separation Persephone's known world: spring, sunshine, green

grass, flowers, etc.

The Call: "I sense that there is more for me to know and understand. I can't explain."

Threshold: Persephone picks the the flower, the hole in the ground opens and Hades takes her to the

underworld.

Threshold guardian: Demeter her mother...she keep her from seeing the other side of the world.

Initiation

Challenges: she doesn't get fed, lonely, and afraid

Temptations: eating the pomegranate seeds, insensitive towards Hades.

Mentor: Hades teaches Persephone that life needs death and that there needs to be balance in everything. He guides her.

Talisman: pomegranate seeds, narcissist

Return Revelation: She could live in light and darkness

Transformation: from a girl to a woman, becoming queen of the Underworld

Atonement:

She is not worried, everything is settled

Return: Comes back to her mom every eight months

Gifts: balanced in the underworld, the four seasons

Observations

Persephone's quest: to find more out there

Demeter's quest: to find Persephone

Both Demeter and Persephone have quests. What were they ?

Why does Persephone chose to eat the pomegranate seeds?

Persephone wants to in the Underworld.

Why is Persephone's journey more significant than her mothers? What different

types of journeys do they both undertake?

She matured and learned much more than her mother in her journey.

Persephone takes a journey of self realization.

Demeter takes a quest to rescue her daughter from the grasp of hades.

Demeter could have rejected Hades compromise continued her strike to fore the return of her

daughter why did she accept hades offer? She finally realizes that Persephone had turn into a woman. Demeter understood that Persephone finds harmony and peace there in the

Underworld, and she had to respect her daughters choices, knowing that she had grown up and could fend for herself and make her own decisions.

Final Words

She is becoming her own woman

Became very independent

Ready to let go of her old life

Stepping out of her comfort zone.