KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -By eating a few pomegranate seeds, Persephone tied herself to Hades-the pomegranate being a symbol of the indissolubility of marriage. Inconsolable at the loss of her daughter, the corn goddess Demeter prevented the earth from bearing fruit unless she saw her daughter again.

Detailed explanation-2: -Her grieving mother, Demeter, goddess of agriculture and fertility, refused to let anything grow. So Zeus intervened and Persephone was returned to the surface of the Earth. But there’s a catch: While in the underworld, Persephone ate six seeds of the pomegranate, a fruit that symbolizes marriage.

Detailed explanation-3: -Particularly important is the section of the myth from which the title comes, when Persephone eats seven pomegranate seeds while captive in the underworld; because of this act, she can go to her mother Demeter, the earth-goddess, but must return to her place in the underworld as the wife of Hades for part of each year.