Demeter vs Persephone

Goddess of harvest or queen of the underworld — mother or daughter?

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Demeter, goddess of the grain and harvest, made the whole earth barren in grief when Hades stole her daughter. Persephone, the maiden dragged into the underworld, became its dread queen for half of every year — and her return each spring is the world's rebirth.

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