The Story of Persephone

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Across
  1. 2. What Persephone must partly spend with Hades—time without end.
  2. 4. Changing of these explains Persephone’s absence and return.
  3. 6. Opposite of Spring, when Persephone is absent.
  4. 9. A song-like poem; the “Homeric ___ to Demeter.”
  5. 12. Represents harmony between life and death, summer and winter.
  6. 13. What Demeter is to Persephone.
  7. 16. Messenger god who escorted Persephone back to her mother.
  8. 17. Fruit Persephone ate that bound her to the Underworld.
  9. 21. Goddess of the harvest and agriculture.
  10. 22. Persephone’s return each year brings this season.
  11. 24. Demeter made this barren during her grief.
  12. 25. The realm of Hades.
Down
  1. 1. A place where Demeter rested disguised as an old woman.
  2. 3. Cereal crop that Demeter gifted humanity.
  3. 5. New life blooms in this season when Persephone returns.
  4. 7. A symbol Demeter carried while searching for her daughter.
  5. 8. Life, death, and rebirth form this repeating pattern.
  6. 10. The god who rules the Underworld.
  7. 11. Goddess of spring and queen of the Underworld
  8. 14. Demeter’s gift connected with crops and childbirth.
  9. 15. A sacred building Demeter ordered to be built in her honor.
  10. 18. Word for Hades seizing Persephone.
  11. 19. The poem that tells of Demeter and Persephone is called a ___ Hymn.
  12. 20. King of the gods who allowed Persephone’s return part-time.
  13. 23. What Persephone is to Demeter.